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April 2 - John 9 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Wednesday.
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  It's the 2nd of April. Hope you're going well.
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  No more shenanigans today. We're going to play it straight.
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  That's right. I hope your week is going well
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  as here we are in the middle of the week.
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  And today's Bible reading just continues a theme.
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  The way that John records all the different incredible,
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  miraculous things that Jesus does, each one of them is there
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  for a particular reason, not just about the miracle itself,
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  but each one of the miracles points from a physical change to
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  a spiritual change or from a physical problem to a physical
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  problem. And today is no different as he
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  talks about blindness. And then in the end, it's
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  actually about the blindness of the Pharisees.
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  You just can't see who he is. So without any further spoilers,
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  let us read together John Chapter 9.
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  As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind
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  from birth. Rabbi His disciples asked him,
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  why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins
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  or his parents sins? It was not because of his sins
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  or his parents sins, Jesus answered.
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  This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.
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  We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned to us by the one
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  who sent us. The night is coming and then no
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  one can work. But while I am here in the
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  world, I am the light of the world.
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  Then he spit on the ground, made mud with his saliva and spread
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  the mud over the blind man's eyes.
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  He told him, go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam.
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  Siloam means scent. So the man went and washed and
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  came back seeing his neighbours and others who knew him as a
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  blind beggar asked each other, isn't this the man who used to
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  sit and beg? Some said he was and others said
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  no, he just looks like him. But the beggar kept saying yes I
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  am the same one. They asked who healed you, what
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  happened? He told them the man they called
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  Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me go to
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  the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.
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  So I went and washed, and now I can see.
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  Where is he now, they asked. I don't know, he replied.
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  Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees,
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  because it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the mud and
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  healed him. The Pharisees asked the man all
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  about it. So he told them, He put the mud
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  over my eyes, and when I washed it away I could see some of the
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  Pharisees said, This man Jesus is not from God, for he is
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  working on the Sabbath. Others said, But how could an
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  ordinary Sinner do such miraculous signs?
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  So there was a deep division of opinion among them.
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  Then the Pharisees again questioned the man who had been
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  blind and demanded, What's your opinion about this man who
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  healed you? The man replied, I think he must
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  be a prophet. The Jewish leaders still refused
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  to believe the man who had been blind and could now see, so they
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  called in his parents. They asked them, Is this your
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  son? Was he born blind?
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  If so, how can he now see? His parents replied, We know
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  this is our son and that he was born blind, but we don't know
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  how he can see or who healed him.
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  Ask him. He's old enough to speak for
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  himself. His parents said this because
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  they were afraid of the Jewish leaders who had announced that
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  anyone saying Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from
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  the synagogue. That's why they said he is old
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  enough ask him. So for the second time, they
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  called in the man who had been blind and told him God should
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  get the glory for this. Because we know that this man,
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  Jesus is a Sinner. I don't know whether he's a
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  Sinner, the man replied. But I know this, I was blind and
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  now I can see. But what did he do?
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  They asked. How did he heal you look, The
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  man exclaimed. I told you once, didn't you
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  listen? Why do you want to hear it
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  again? Do you want to become his
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  disciples too? Then they cursed him and said,
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  You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
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  We know God spoke to Moses, but we don't even know where this
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  man comes from. Why, that's very strange.
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  The man replied, He healed my eyes, and yet you don't know
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  where he comes from. We know that God doesn't listen
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  to sinners, but He is ready to hear those who worship Him and
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  do His will. Ever since the world began, no
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  one has been able to open the eyes of someone born blind.
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  If this man were not from God, he couldn't have done it.
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  You were born a total Sinner. They answered, Are you trying to
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  teach us? And they threw him out of the
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  synagogue. When Jesus heard what had
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  happened, he found the man and asked him, Do you believe in the
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  Son of Man? The man answered, Who is he?
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  Sir? I want to believe in him.
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  You have seen him, Jesus said, and he is speaking to you.
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  Yes, Lord, I believe, the man said, And he worshipped Jesus.
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  Then Jesus told him, I entered this world to render judgement,
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  to give sight to the blind, and to show those who think they see
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  that they are blind. Some Pharisees who were standing
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  nearby heard him and asked, Are you saying we're blind?
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  If you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty, Jesus replied.
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  But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.
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  Jesus. We know that all too often we
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  too are blinded. It's it's so easy for us to
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  judge those Pharisees, but Lord, we are blind too.
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  And so often your goodness and Your grace abounds around us and
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  we just don't see it. Jesus, take those scales off our
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  eyes, take away our own blindness so that we can see You
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  and your work and Your truth all around us, and that we can
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  behold it and share it and know it.
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  Jesus, thank you that You are the truth and that when we know
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  you, when we intimately, properly know you, that your
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  truth comes to us. Oh, what a gift you are to us.
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  Jesus, we just love you and we thank you and we pray that we
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  would always see you for who you are, our loving, wonderful
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  Saviour, the Son of God. And we worship you and praise
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  you and pray all of these things in your name.
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  Amen.