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		John 9

JOHN 9:1-41
Jesus and the Blind Beggar

I. JESUS SEES A MAN BLIND FROM BIRTH 9:1

The ___________ and all-seeing Son of God sets His eyes upon a man who had been born blind and had no capacity to ____ Him.

The fact that the man was born blind is symbolic of the fact that all men are born into this world __________ blind in ____; having no capacity to see Jesus.

II. JESUS EXPLAINS WHY THE MAN WAS BORN BLIND 9:2-5

Physical disease, defects, sickness, suffering, and death can all be traced back to the _____ of man into ____.

Jesus said that the man was born blind for a _________.

Jesus is the Light ________ L, glorifying His Father through His work of ____________.

III. JESUS HEALS THE MAN BORN BLIND 9:6-7

The blind man’s ____________ is immediately rewarded.

Jesus is the true Siloam. He can do what physical water cannot do. Through Him ______ water is _____ by the Father to bring cleansing to sinners and give them spiritual sight.

IV. THE HEALING AMAZES THE NEIGHBORS 9:8-10

Once healed of his blindness the man goes immediately to _____ others.

Never had they seen a man _____ blind healed; but never had they encountered the _____________________ face to face.

V. JESUS IS IDENTIFIED AS THE HEALER 9:11-12

The healed man gave all the _______ for his healing to _______.

To avoid a confrontation the healed man could have _____ and said he didn’t know who healed him but he spoke the truth and boldly confessed that it was the _____ named Jesus.

When given spiritual sight we do not fully understand at _____ who Jesus is in His person until _________ more fully in His Word.

VI. JESUS HEALS ON THE SABBATH 9:13-16

The religious leaders, angered by the fact that Jesus had again violated their _________ regulations, try to _________ the miracle.

Jesus most likely chose the Sabbath to heal the man born blind in order to expose the _________ of the Pharisees and jolt them out of their _______________.

VII. THE PHARISEES TRY TO DISCREDIT JESUS 9:17-23

The healed man was advancing in his understanding of who Jesus was. He knew that Jesus must at least be a _________.

Out of the _________ of their hearts the Pharisees refused to believe the healed man’s report and so called his _________ to testify as to what happened.

Anyone who would openly recognize Jesus as the _________, God’s Anointed, would be put out of the synagogue (excommunicated and considered a pagan); cut off from the religious and social life of Israel.

VIII. THE PHARISEES REFUSE TO BELIEVE THE TRUTH 9:24-34

The Jews were trying in every possible way to _______ that Jesus was not the One who had opened the eyes of the man born blind.

The Pharisees do not dream that they are bestowing upon the healed man the highest possible honor when they call him a _________ of Jesus.

The very idea of ascribing to Jesus the ability to ______ is so obnoxious to these religionists that they regard the one who declares it as “wholly _____________”.

IX. THE HEALED BLIND MAN BELIEVES 9:35-38

Jesus asks, “Do you _________ in the Son of man?” That is, “Do you rely entirely — for life and death — on the Son of man?”

Jesus was begotten of God and came into this world as a ____ to die for men, thus “the Son of man”. Jesus was the ________ born Son of God and the ______ born Son of Man.

Being now fully aware of the fact that Jesus is the _________, the Son of Man, the healed man believes, acknowledging Jesus as Lord, and _________ Him.

X. JESUS CAME TO GIVE SIGHT TO THE BLIND 9:39-41

Those who acknowledge that they are spiritually ______ will receive sight and have _________ fellowship with the Light.

Those who ______ they see and have no need for God to give them sight will be eternally ______ and separated from the Light.