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I Was Blind But Now I See: John 9:1-41 - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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I Was Blind But Now I See: John 9:1-41

As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.

Blind from birth. Never a sunrise, never a mother's face, never color or shape. Darkness from the womb.

His disciples asked him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?

The theological question of suffering. In their framework, affliction meant punishment. So who was being punished?

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