"Dirty Jesus pt 2: Muddy Miracles" by Rev. Grant Armstrong

Sunday,

September 9, 2018

John 9:1-15

(NLT) 

1As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.  2"Teacher," his disciples asked him, "why was this man born blind? Was it a result of his own sins or those of his parents?"  3"It was not because of his sins or his parents' sins," Jesus answered. "He was born blind so the power of God could be seen in him.  4All of us must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent me, because there is little time left before the night falls and all work comes to an end. 5But while I am still here in the world, I am the light of the world."  6Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and smoothed the mud over the blind man's eyes. 7He told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing! 8His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, "Is this the same man-- that beggar?"  9Some said he was, and others said, "No, but he surely looks like him!" And the beggar kept saying, "I am the same man!" 10They asked, "Who healed you? What happened?" 11 He told them, "The man they call Jesus made mud and smoothed it over my eyes and told me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam and wash off the mud.' I went and washed, and now I can see!"  12"Where is he now?" they asked. "I don't know," he replied. 13Then they took the man to the Pharisees. 14Now as it happened, Jesus had healed the man on a Sabbath. 15The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, "He smoothed the mud over my eyes, and when it was washed away, I could see!"