PARENTS BLIND MAN� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES

{Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted}
[1]������ THE BIBLE, LEVITICUS 12:3 - On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.
[2]� ���� The Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes and Zealots were the four sects of Judaism.� In Jesus' time, the Pharisees were the controlling "denomination" of Jews.� However, soon after Jesus' death, the Sadducees began to rise in power.� The Essenes had communes and emphasized abstinence to honor God.� The Zealots were the opposite with militia and terrorist tactics used against the occupation government, the Romans.
[3]������ FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 15, 11:3, 5 - Now the temple was built of stones that were white and strong...the royal cloister was on each side much lower, but the middle was much higher till they were visible to those that dwelt in the country for a great many furlongs....
This cloister...if you looked from above into the depth [of the valley on the other side of the wall] the valley was very deep and its bottom could not be seen if you looked from above into the depth...insomuch that if any one looked down from the top...he would be giddy while his sight could not reach to such an immense depth....
[Columns] were made with sculptures after the Corinthian order....four rows of pillars included three intervals for walking in the middle of this cloister...the breadth of each of them was thirty feet, the length was a furlong, and the height fifty feet....
The front was all of polished stone, insomuch that its fineness to such as had not seen it, was incredible, and to such as had seen it, was greatly amazing.� Thus was the first enclosure...the second to be on up to by a few steps.
[4]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:22b [NIV] - The Jews had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
[5]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:7b - The man went and washed ~ and saw.
[6]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:38 - "Master, I believe," the man said, and worshiped him.
[7]������ www.securesite.net/ss2ad/past/main95 - Ancient coins, inscriptions and dedications from the middle of the first century feature the names of King Herod and even Caiaphas, the High Priest.
[8]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:13 - They marched the man to the Pharisees.
[9]������ 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.
[10]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:19 - They asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind?� So how is it that he now sees?"
[11]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 9:20-21 - His parents said, "We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.� But we don't know how he came to see - haven't a clue about who opened his eyes.� Why don't you ask him?� He's a grown man and can speak for himself."
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