NKJV 365 / Healing the Man Born Blind

NKJV 365 Day Reading Plan

Day 354 of 365 Healing the Man Born Blind Jesus proclaimed, "I am the light of the world" (John 8:12; 9:5) and demonstrated what He meant by healing a man with congenital blindness. Jesus' presence in the world as "light" served first as a source of revelation, revealing "the works of God" (John 9:3) in overcoming affliction. But this "light" was also a source of judgment (see John 3:19-21). The healing provoked a crisis because it was performed on the Sabbath (9:16). By self-righteously condemning Jesus as a "sinner" for this breach of Sabbath observance traditions, Jesus' Pharisaic opponents brought themselves under judgment (John 9:39-41). Conversely, the man who was healed received not only physical sight but also increasing spiritual insight. As he reflected upon what had happened to him, he gradually proceeded from referring to his benefactor as "a Man called Jesus" (9:11) to saying that "He is a prophet" (9:17), and ultimately to confessing belief that He is "the Son of God" (9:35-38). Taken from Chronological Study Bible John 9:6-12 NASB 6 When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes, 7 and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing. 8 Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, "Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?" 9 Others were saying, "This is he," still others were saying, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the one." 10 So they were saying to him, "How then were your eyes opened?" 11 He answered, "The man who is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash' ; so I went away and washed, and I received sight." 12 They said to him, "Where is He?" He said, "I do not know."