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CAN YOU SEE OR ARE YOU AS BLIND AS THIS MAN?

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A MAN BORN BLIND RECEIVES SIGHT. John 9:12-31   King James Version (KJV) 12  Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not. 13  They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. 14  And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. 15  Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. In this passage, the man was blind from birth, he was also a beggar who had the routine of waiting by the gates of the temple for gifts from the worshipers. In those days it was commonly thought that a sickness was a result of sin and that if the parents committed a sin, it was transferred to the child of those parents.  But Jesus rejected this idea. In this particular situation, God allowed the man to be born blind so that Jesus could heal him and reveal the works of God through the man Jesus Christ so that ...