What a way to wind up the Pharisees. I like this guy. He had his sight back and quite rightly, he was exhilarated and beside himself with joy. He was seeing things he had never seen before and trying to put what he had thought before, into the present situation - he could see. The last thing he was interested in was an interrogation.
The man's frustration is seen in the way he talks back to the Pharisees:
''I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?' Verse 27
But then they said that he was Jesus' disciple, which at that time wasn't true. They would have had further problems, no doubt, if they had known that he wasn't and yet Jesus had healed him anyway.
In fact, their behaviour and conversation showed that they were blinkered. They could not see what was staring them in the face. That sounds like such a typical thing today, don't you think?
They were more concerned where He had come from and that He had healed the blind man on a Sabbath. This sounds amazing. Here was a man born blind but now he could see and yet there concern is more about religious issues.
The man. all fired up, now gave them both barrels. It was almost as if he had been filled with the Holy Spirit already. But this is what it is like when we meet with Jesus. He sets people ablaze. The man gave the Pharisees a mini-bible study V30-33. In fact, he spoke to them as if he was a very, well educated man - a true teacher in the making.
The Pharisees though, true to style, refused to be affected by it all. their hearts were hard and they were unteachable, when they couldn't get their own way. They threw him out of the synagogue.
Now note one thing here, Jesus was very busy. He had people demanding the whole of His time, wherever He went. Yet, when He heard that he had been cast out of the synagogue, He went looking for him. Doesn't that remind you of something? Read The Parable of the Lost Sheep:
Luke 15:1-7: 'What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?' v4
Jesus brought the man into the fold and I believe his gift of teaching, which Jesus had no doubt heard of too, would be put to good use, when he had been born again and firmly become a disciple.
He has done the same for you too. You were once lost and in a place where there was no certainty or hope. Life had probably kicked and ridiculed you. Life had treated you badly and you had probably made an inner vow that no one would ever hurt you again, 'I don't need anyone,' you may have said.
And then, Jesus turned up with a smile on His face and His love captivated you and you knew that you would never be the same again.
'What has happened to you?' people may have said. Your reply too, may have been, 'I don't really know, but one thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see.' Jesus had opened your eyes and you could see the way ahead.
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