Physical and Spiritual Blindness

One Saturday the Lord Jesus Christ and his disciples were walking through the city of Jerusalem when the disciples saw suddenly a man born blind who begged in the vicinity of the Temple. Seeing him, the disciples asked a question fraught with prejudice and with an organic dye-religious, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? In other words, the disciples associated the plight of the man blind from birth, with some specific sin committed by the parents (genetic-religious) or as a direct punishment for some sin committed by the fetus / baby while in the womb his mother ... (birth-religious). In fact, the theologians of that time would argue later that this had been born blind "at all in sin" (cf. John 9:1-41).

The Teacher of teachers responded to the question of the disciples saying, not that this man sinned, or his parents sinned, but this man was born blind so that the works of God made manifest in him. Now the disciples were to see one of the works which the Father had given to Jesus, the man born blind would see the true light, because Jesus is the light of the world. Jesus spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva and smeared with mud, the eyes of the blind, and said: Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam (which means Sent). The blind man was not seen, washed and came seeing. Since that time, many of the neighbors and those who before had seen him he was blind, said, Is not this the blind man who sat begging? Some said he is, and others: it seems. He said: I am. Then the people asked: how were you open your eyes? and he answered the man called Jesus made clay, anointed my eyes, and said: Go to Siloam and wash: and I went, and I washed, and received sight.

Then I asked: Where is he who cured you? and said do not know.

After having made this extraordinary miracle, some pseudo defenders of the law of Moses and the regulations, led to the former non-psychic to answer a few questions in front of the Pharisees, and that the miracle had been performed "violating" the sacred hours a day of rest and "violated" with impunity the law prohibiting "make mud on Saturday. Upon arriving. the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight. The man told Jesus put clay on my eyes and sent me to I wash in Siloam, and now I see. And some of the Pharisees said, that man (Jesus) is not from God, he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said how can a sinner do such miracles? Y was a division among them. Then ask the blind man again: What sayest thou of you opened your eyes? And he said, from my point of view, I can assert that Jesus is the prophet of God.

Then some Jews who did not believe the man was blind and had received his sight, called the parents from whom he had received his sight, for interrogation, saying: Is this your son, who ye say was born blind ? How then does he now see? Faced with this incisive question parents responded: we know that this is our son, and we know was born blind, but how he now seeth, we know not, nor know who opened his eyes, your age, ask him, he will speak for itself . Then the Pharisees contradictory they called the man who had been blind to "clarify" the miracle happened, saying, give glory to God, because we know that this man called Jesus is a sinner. Then the man who had been cured said, one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see. The Pharisees again asked: What made you? How do you open your eyes? ex-blind and said to them, as I have said, and you would not hear, why would ye hear it again? (Hard-hearted Pharisees) ye also be his disciples? The Pharisees reviled him and said you are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for that, not knowing where it is. The man answered and said unto them, this is wonderful, that you do not know where he is, and I opened my eyes. If this is not from God, could do nothing. Then the angry Pharisees said to him: You were born entirely in sins, and teach us? and expelled from the temple.

When Jesus knew that he had been expelled, I look to find it, because Jesus wanted to complete the miracle that had started, and found him, he said, do you believe in the Son of God? He answered and said: Who is he, sir, to believe in him? Jesus said to her as you've seen, and who speak to you, it is. And he said, I believe, Lord, and worshiped him. This man was born blind, not only saw the sunshine and beautiful colors, but also saw with his eyes the face of God, Jesus Christ.

The learned Pharisees presumptuously had ensured that they were disciples of Moses, not Jesus. They had also acknowledged that they knew who was Moses, but did not know who Jesus was. These scholars when they read the scriptures "saw" Moses, but did not see Jesus as the fulfillment of each story, ceremony, event, or doctrine. The Pharisees knew and recognized Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Elijah and Daniel, but did not know Emanuel. Seeing, they saw. So Jesus said, for trial I have come to this world, that they which see not may see, and those who see may become blind.

And even to this day, when reading the Scriptures and is anything but Jesus Christ, is because they are reading with a veil pulled over your eyes, which is removed only by Christ (cf. 2 Corinthians 3: 14-16). So Jesus opened the disciples understanding that they might understand the Scriptures, and beginning at Moses and all the Prophets and the Psalms, he expounded all the scriptures the things concerning himself (cf. Luke 24:27 , 45). [1]

Jorge R. Talbot

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[1] The Holy Scriptures were written for the Messiah. Our mission is to find on every page. Jorge R. Talbot, Lulu Publishing, 2011.