Fwd: Your Man Born Blind (John Chapter ()
William Zambrano MD
From: David J Sheehan <davidjsh...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 8:01 PM
Subject: Your Man Born Blind (John Chapter ()
To: DAVID SHEEHAN <davidjsh...@yahoo.com>
Your Man born blind
Making the Blind See
By David Joseph Sheehan
Crowley, Texas
The Man born blind ~ John, Chapter 9
This is a great story about how Jesus works in a soul. There is also comedic parts as well that allow this story to be put into a morality play.
When God enters your life, things are going to change and perhaps, change radically. Our Blessed Lord walks by and sees the man born blind. His apostles express the common view of the day that the man must have offended God or that the man’s parents had offended God and were punished by being given a child blind from birth.
So, Our Lord must first work on the ignorance of the Apostles. Jesus must also work on our own ignorance as well. How often we say when some one is accused of something, “Well, where there is smoke, there is fire”.
Our Lord creates a mud paste, puts it on the man’s eyes and tells him to go wash. Our Lord is sending us back to Genesis 2:7 where He created man from the dust of the earth.
The man does exactly what Our Lord tells him to do – perfect obedience. Then, Our Lord disappears from the scene and the “fun” begins.
Sometimes things happen to us and we do not know the source. We are late to work one morning and we miss a car accident along the way. We do not know this but God does. Even when bad things happen to us, God will look after us, so do not lose heart or think that God has abandoned you when bad things happen.
Let us continue……
Your man, formerly blind, returns to his neighbors – he has changed. Some can accept the change and others cannot. After God touches you, some will accept the “new” you and some will reject you.
Now come the local religious authorities on the scene. This whole drama is like a play with Our Lord watching off stage. Since it was the Sabbath, the miracle is treated as “work” and therefore it is forbidden. But only God can give sight to the blind and would God break the law of the Sabbath? Our Lord is Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:8). He is not subject to the rules and regulations of the Sabbath; He is the Master, not the servant of the Sabbath.
The Pharisees cannot solve the riddle; they turn to your man and his response is astonishing. “He is a prophet”.
A prophet, in this context, would be a man sent by God. Our “blind man” has begun the first faltering steps towards Our Lord. A man sent by God could not break the Sabbath for anything he would do on the Sabbath would be a direct order from God for that moment in time.
The Pharisees reject this and call the parents. The parents see the whole matter as “heading south” as we would say. No matter the outcome, it is going to be bad now that the Pharisees are involved and the object of their hatred is Jesus. The Pharisees hate Him so much that they cannot even speak His name, but keep referring to Him as “This Man”. The parents have not encountered Jesus, and so they answer as if they have been prepped by an attorney.
a) Yes, he is our son
b) Yes, he was born blind
c) No, we do not know how he got his sight
d) He is of legal age, ask him.
You know they rehearsed their answers before they got to the Pharisees. It is like getting called down to the police station when your teenager has been driving the family car. You know this is going “south” really fast.
So, the pantomime continues. The Pharisees call back the son. Now this is starting to get a bit old for the former blind man. As a blind man who had to sit and beg, he took a lot of abuse, particularly from this bunch. Now, it’s payback time.
When asked to tell the story again, the “blind man” asks them if they want to hear it again so they can become Jesus’ disciples. He hits them really where it hurts. They are faced with the truth, these so-called guardians of truth, and cannot accept it.
The man answered them: “Why, here’s a wonderful thing, that you know not from where he comes from, and he has opened my eyes. Now we know that God does not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God, and does His will, God will listen to him. From the beginning of the world, it has not been heard, that any man has opened the eyes of one born blind. Unless this man were of God, He could not do anything.”
Our man has hit a home run over the fence. “Unless this man were of God”.
The Gospel of John is the Genesis of the New Testament:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Confronted by the Truth, the Pharisees must either accept the divinity of Christ or reject Him.
They reject Christ by throwing out His spokesman, the “blind man”.
If you are in a church, synagogue, mosque, or whatever, and you speak the Truth that God has given you, and they kick you out of that “place of worship”, thank God each night on bended knees for such a “blessed” kick.
The “blind man” now has nothing except his sight and a short memory of the touch of the man called Jesus. He has been thrown out of the synagogue and by extension, his community. His parents have distanced themselves from him for fear of the Pharisees. He has nothing except…….
Jesus heard that they had cast him out: and when He had found him, He said to him: “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
When we stand up for God, we can expect to be abandoned by people whom we thought were friends. We may even get abandoned by our family. Look what happened to Saint Francis of Assisi.
Then, when we are alone and “at the bottom of the tank”, God will come for us. We have defended Him, and now He will defend us.
Somewhere, in some place, these Pharisees are still arguing about the miracle of the blind man. Leave them be. If Jesus could not change their minds, then no one can.
Let us follow this strange and charming God Who makes the blind see and in a moment turns them into religious scholars with the touch of His hand. Let us join the company of the former blind man who now sees Our Lord in the Beatific Vision. Amen.
you and yours 
