Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
Jesus and his disciples pass by a man who was born blind, and the disciples asked Jesus who had sinned, his parents or him?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. John 9:3
Then Jesus spat on the ground, made a paste of clay, and put it on the blind man's eyes, and told the blind man to wash in the pool of Siloam. Did this man know who Jesus was, or did someone tell him of the miracles Jesus had done? It doesn't say, however, if they had, he believed them and was obedient to Jesus, likely hoping what was said about him was true. After he washed the mud from his eyes, he could see. This miracle was another proof that Jesus was the Messiah that the Jews are still waiting for to this day, because no one had ever healed a person who was blind from birth.
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. Isaiah 42:7
We are the prisoners with blind eyes sitting in the darkness, because we are like this blind man who never saw Jesus until he healed him. Even though he couldn't see him, he had heard of him, believed in him, was obedient by doing what Jesus said, and later looked to him as his Savior, which is exactly how we are brought to the saving knowledge of Jesus. We have never seen him, but we believe the scriptures.
