When you read trough the New Testament in the Bible you soon see that Jesus in his time was not "politically correct".
He said and claimed things often that offended people, but at the same time what he said was the truth. Some of the disciples after Jesus' resurrection,sacrificed their lives for this truth, a risky business really. But there is one man who just once appear in the New Testament but stood up for Jesus and offended the Pharisees when they investigated his healing, and that was the blind man in John 9.
The blind man replied to the investigators: "Whether he is a sinner or not, I don't know, but one thing I know. I was blind but now I see".
The Pharisees were blind too, but then we are talking about spiritual blindness.
They kept asking him over again and he said to them, perhaps yelled he at them "Why do you want to hear it again!? Do you want to become his disciples too? Oh, I can only imagine how the Pharisees would look like in their faces when they heard the man say like this. Red faces and black eyes!
The blind man finished the investigation by saying: "If this man were not from God, he could do nothing". The blind man's logic was simple: God does not answer the prayers of sinners. Jesus could not have restored his sight apart from God's help.
The blind man saw things in Jesus that the Pharisees could not see. I wonder do you?
We cant do anything without Jesus, but the good news is, we are not without him...
He said and claimed things often that offended people, but at the same time what he said was the truth. Some of the disciples after Jesus' resurrection,sacrificed their lives for this truth, a risky business really. But there is one man who just once appear in the New Testament but stood up for Jesus and offended the Pharisees when they investigated his healing, and that was the blind man in John 9.
The blind man replied to the investigators: "Whether he is a sinner or not, I don't know, but one thing I know. I was blind but now I see".
The Pharisees were blind too, but then we are talking about spiritual blindness.
They kept asking him over again and he said to them, perhaps yelled he at them "Why do you want to hear it again!? Do you want to become his disciples too? Oh, I can only imagine how the Pharisees would look like in their faces when they heard the man say like this. Red faces and black eyes!
The blind man finished the investigation by saying: "If this man were not from God, he could do nothing". The blind man's logic was simple: God does not answer the prayers of sinners. Jesus could not have restored his sight apart from God's help.
The blind man saw things in Jesus that the Pharisees could not see. I wonder do you?
We cant do anything without Jesus, but the good news is, we are not without him...
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