John 9: 8-13, Questioning the blind man
His neighbors and people who had seen him earlier begging asked questions. “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” they asked.
9 Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No. He only looks like him.”
But the man who had been blind kept saying, “I am the man.”
10 “Then how were your eyes opened?” they asked.
11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed. Then I could see.”
12 “Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
9 Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No. He only looks like him.”
But the man who had been blind kept saying, “I am the man.”
10 “Then how were your eyes opened?” they asked.
11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed. Then I could see.”
12 “Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
In the confusion about healing, the blind man explains that, Yes, this did happen. "It was me." Of course, he really knows very little -- except that he was healed! -- but they insist on interrogating him anyway.
Unable to find Jesus, the people take the blind man to the Pharisees.
As in many of the healings reported in the gospels, this is on the Sabbath....
Why does Jesus so often heal on the Sabbath? Does he deliberately pick that day, knowing it will bring confrontation? Or is it just that the healings on that day are the controversial ones and so are the ones reported in the gospels?
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