46-BlindMan-Endnotes

BLIND MAN� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES

{Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted}

[1]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:22b - ...intimidated by the Jewish leaders who had already decided that anyone who took a stand that this was the Messiah would be kicked out of the meeting place [synagogue and Temple].

[2]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:48-50 - "If we let him go on, pretty soon everyone will be believing in him and the Romans will come and remove what little power and privilege we still have."� Then one of them ~ it was Caiaphas, the designated Chief Priest that year ~ spoke up, "....Can't you see that it's to our advantage...rather than the whole nation be destroyed?"

[3]�� THE BIBLE, EXODUS 4:11 - The Lord said to him, "Who gave man his mouth?� Who makes him deaf or mute?� Who gives him sight or makes him blind?"

[4]�� THE BIBLE, PSALM 146:8 - The Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down.

[5]�� THE BIBLE, II KINGS 20:20 - Hezekiah's reign [716-687 BC]...made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city.

[6]�� www.biblehisdtory.net/Chap5 - An inscription at the site of the pool of Siloam discovered in 1880 says, "While the tunnelers were working with their picks, each toward the other, and while there was still three cubits [five feet] of rock to go through, the rock split to the south and to the north, and the voices of each were heard calling one to another.� At that moment the laborers broke through striking pick against pick.� Then the water began to flow from the spring to the pool for a distance of 1200 cubits [1900 feet].� And the height of the tunnel above the heads of the laborers was one hundred cubits [160 feet]."

[7]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:1 - Walking down the street, Jesus saw a man blind from birth.

[8]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:2 - His disciples asked, "Rabbi, who sinned:� this man or his parents, causing him to be born blind?"

[9]�� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 12:10 [NIV] - "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ.� For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down."

[10]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:3 - Jesus said, "You're asking the wrong question.� You're looking for someone to blame.� There is no such cause-effect here."

[11]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:4-5 - "Look instead for what god can do.� We need to be energetically at work for the One who sent me here, working while the sun shines.� When night falls, the workday is over.� For as long as I am in the world, there is plenty of light.� I am the world's Light"

[12]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:6 - He said this and then spit in the dust, made a clay paste with the saliva, rubbed the paste on the blind man's eyes.

[13]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:7a - "Go, wash at the Pool of Siloam" (Siloam means "Sent").

[14]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:7b - The man went and washed ~ and saw.

[15]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:8 - His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?"

[16]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:8 [NIV] - Some claimed that he was.� Others said, "No, he only looks like him."� But he himself insisted, "I am the man."

[17]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:10 - He said, "It's me, the very one."� They said, "How did your eyes get opened?"

[18]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:11 - "A man named Jesus made a paste and rubbed it on my eyes and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.'� I did what he said.� When I washed, I saw."

[19]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:12 - "So where is he?"� "I don't know."

[20]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:13 - They marched the man to the Pharisees.

[21]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:14 - This day when Jesus made the paste and healed his blindness was the Sabbath.

[22]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:15 - The Pharisees grilled him again on how he had come to see.� He said, "He put a clay paste on my eyes, and I washed, and now I see."

[23]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:16 - Some of the Pharisees said, "Obviously, this man can't be from God.� He doesn't keep the Sabbath."� Others countered, "How can a bad man do miraculous, God-revealing things like this?"� There was a split in their ranks.

[24]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:17 - They came back at the blind man, "You're the expert.� He opened your eyes.� What do you say about him?"� He said, "He is a prophet."

25]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:18 - The Jews didn't believe it, didn't believe the man was blind to begin with.� So they called the parents of the man now brighteyed with sight.

[26]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:24 - They called the man back a second time ~ the man who had been blind ~ and told him, "Give credit to God.� We know this man is an impostor."

[27]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:25 - He replied, "I know nothing about that one way or the other.� But I know one thing for sure:� I was blind...I now see."

[28]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:27 - "I've told you over and over and you haven't listened.� Why do you want to hear it again?� Are you so eager to become his disciples?"

[29]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:28-29 - With that they jumped all over him.� "You might be a disciple of that man, but we're disciples of Moses.� We know for sure that God spoke to Moses, but we have no idea where this man even comes from."

[30]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:30-33 - The man replied, "This is amazing!� You claim to know nothing about him, but the fact is, he opened my eyes!� It's well known that God isn't at the beck and call of sinners, but listens carefully to anyone who lives in reverence and does his will.� That someone opened the eyes of a man born blind has never been heard of ~ ever.� If this man didn't come from God, he wouldn't be able to do anything."

[31]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:34 - They said, "You're nothing but dirt!� How dare you take that tone with us!" Then they threw him out in the street.

[32]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:35 - Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and went and found him.� He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

[33]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:36 - The man said, "Point him out to me, sir, so that I can believe in him."

[34]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:37 - Jesus said, "You're looking right at him.� Don't you recognize my voice?"

[35]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:38 - "Master, I believe," the man said, and worshiped him.

[36]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:39 - Jesus then said, "I came into the world to bring everything into the clear light of day, making all the distinctions clear, so that those who have never seen will see, and those who have made a great pretense of seeing will be exposed as blind."

[37]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 13:31-32 - Just then some Pharisees came up and said, "Run for your life!� Herod's on the hunt.� He's out to kill you!"� Jesus said, "Tell that fox that I've no time for him right now."

[38]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 20:18 - "We are on our way up to Jerusalem.� When we get there, the Son of Man will be betrayed to the religious leaders and scholars.� They will sentence him to death."

[39]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:46 - They spent some time in Jericho.� As Jesus was leaving town, trailed by his disciples and a parade of people, a blind beggar by the name of Bartimaeus, son of Timaeus, was sitting alongside the road.

[40]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:47 - When they heard that Jesus the Nazarene was passing by, he began to cry out, "Son of David, Jesus!� Mercy, have mercy on me!"

[41]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:49 - Jesus stopped in his tracks.� "Call him over."� They called him.� "It's your lucky day!� Get up!� He's calling you to come."

[42]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:50 - Throwing off his coat, he was on his feet at once, and came to Jesus.

[43]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:51 - Jesus said, "What can I do for you?"� The blind man said, "Rabbi, I want to see."

[44]�� THE BIBLE, MARK 10:52 - "On your way," said Jesus.� "Your faith has saved and healed you."� In that very instant he recovered his sight and followed Jesus down the road.

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