1. The disciples asked a question about why the blind man they saw had been born blind. Their question shows that they believed: sickness and physical handicap are the result of sin.
2. Jesus said that the fact the man was born blind was: ordained that the works of God would be manifest in him.
3. When the man who had been blind was brought before the Pharisees: they were not entirely convinced of the identity of this man with the man known to be blind from birth.
4. The Pharisees were unconvinced by the man's testimony that a miracle had been performed: until they called his parents and learned from them that he had been born blind.
5. The response of the Pharisees, confronted as they were with an undeniable miracle, was to: ask the man to deny that Jesus had anything to do with it and direct his praise to God.
6. The response of the blind man's parents to the questioning of the Pharisees was to: disclaim any knowledge concerning the miracle that was performed.
7. The response of the Pharisees to the confrontation with the blind man's parents was to: ask the man to repeat the account of his healing.
8. The response of the blind man to the further questioning of the Pharisees was to: (1) deride them for their unbelief in the face of an obvious miracle, (2) affirm that the one who healed him must be of God, and (3) challenge them to become disciples of Jesus.
9. The response of Jesus to the predicament of the man born blind being cast out of the synagogue was to: search for and find him, and ask him to believe on the Son of God.
10. Jesus said that the effect of His coming would be to: enable the blind to see, but conf irm those who felt they could see in spiritual blindness.
Tom of Spotswood"He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." (I John 5:12)
"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." (Jeremiah 29:13)
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