Week 44 · Day 4: The Miracles of Jesus
Though I Was Blind, Now I See
A healed man's growing understanding of who healed him.
What the labels mean
- Scripture explicitly says
- This states what the biblical text itself says, in the passage being read.
- Direct quotation or allusion
- One part of Scripture quotes or clearly alludes to another. The citing reference is named so you can check it.
- Canonical theme
- A connection across the whole Bible. The passages develop the same theme; one is not quoting the other.
- Interpretive conclusion
- A conclusion drawn from the text. The reasoning is given so you can weigh it against the passage.
- Application
- A step, prayer or question for the reader. Not a claim about what the passage states.
Today’s verse
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John 9:25
Today’s focus
The truth of the day
John 9 tracks the healed man's answers as they develop under repeated questioning: first he calls Jesus a man in verse 11, then a prophet in verse 17, then someone from God in verse 33, and finally, once Jesus finds him again, Lord, worshiping him in verse 38. The chapter follows a mind changing in real time as the man keeps thinking honestly about what happened to him.
Meanwhile the Pharisees who questioned him grow more certain in the opposite direction, insisting Jesus cannot be from God because he healed on the Sabbath. John sets the healed man's growing sight next to their hardening blindness on purpose.
Today’s reminder
Scripture explicitly says- You can testify to what you know is true even before you understand everything about it.
- Understanding who Jesus is can grow through honest questioning rather than instant certainty.
- Refusing to see is a real danger even for people who study Scripture closely.
Deeper insight
What the passage says in its own setting
The disciples open the chapter with a theological question about whose sin caused the blindness, and Jesus redirects them entirely: it was not that this man sinned or his parents, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. The healing answers a different question than the one they asked.
Jesus makes mud with saliva and sends the man to wash in the pool of Siloam, a detail John notes means Sent, in verse 7. The unusual method and the naming of the pool both draw attention to Jesus being the one sent by the Father, a theme running through this Gospel.
Christ connection
Where this leads to Jesus
Scripture explicitly saysJust before this healing, in John 8:12, Jesus says I am the light of the world, a claim this chapter then demonstrates in the most literal way possible for a man born blind.
Reflection
ApplicationWhat is one thing you know is true about what Jesus has done, even if you cannot yet explain everything around it?
Today’s action
ApplicationTell one person today, simply, one specific way Jesus has changed how you see something.
Today’s prayer
ApplicationLord, open my eyes as You opened his. Let me hold on to what I know is true about You even while I am still working out what I do not yet understand. Amen.
Another layer
Keep going into the library
- Everything on The Life of Jesus in the library