Tag: Healing
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‘I was blind, and now I can see’ – John 9:13-41
Jesus healed the man born blind on the Sabbath. The Pharisees used this as an excuse to claim He was sinful and couldn’t be from God because He didn’t keep the Sabbath. They called the man in to be questioned, not once but twice. They called in his parents to make sure that he had…
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Curiosity and Compassion – John 9:1-12
Jesus and the disciples came across a man who had been born blind. The disciples’ first impulse was not to help the man, but to place blame for his condition. They assumed the blindness was a punishment for the man’s sin or his parents’ sin. We can also be too quick to blame others for…
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Equal with God – John 5:1-23
Jesus healed a man who had been sick 38 years. Rather than celebrate and praise God for this astounding miracle, the Pharisees were outraged that Jesus had told the man to pick up his mat on the Sabbath. When they confronted Jesus, He gave them something else to be concerned about. He told them more…