Session 11 John 9:24-38

YOU HAVE SEEN HIM

ENGAGE

SHARE:

read the opening paragraph on page 93.

Ask:

• What is your favorite personal photograph?
• Why do you treasure that image?

TRANSITION:

We rely on our sight to understand things.
It helps us live in the present and remember the past.
Today’s passage focuses on a man
who had never seen anything physically,
but his physical and spiritual vision were both sharp
after meeting Jesus.

EXPLORE

INTRODUCE:

Point out that you will be studying the sixth sign:
Healing the man born blind.

CONTEXTUALIZE:

present a summary of John 9:1-23,
including details about how Jesus healed the man
and the fact that the healing took place on the Sabbath.
Note that Jesus had already healed at least one other person on the Sabbath
in John 5.

• jesus saw the man. blind from birth. who sinned, this man or his parents?
• Neither, so the works of God might be displayed
• work as long as it is day; night is coming. Jesus is the Light of the world."
• clay made from spit. told to Go, wash
• neighbors saw him healed. its him, looks like him. He kept saying, I am the one.
• neighbors: how did it happen?
• jesus mmade clay, I washed, now I see. where is jesus now?

• they gbrought him to pharisees. it was sabbath.
• Pharisees: how did it happen?
• jesus mmade clay, I washed, now I see.
• Pharisees: ungodly for breaking Sabbath.
• others: how can a sinner perform such signs? divisions. "
• interrogate the blind man. who is jesus? a prophet.
• denied he was ever blind. called for parents.
• "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"
• he is, he was blind. how it happened, who did it. we don't know. ask him.
• they were afraid of the jews.
• jews agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.