Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
This question belongs to the account of Jesus healing a man born blind, to whom He showed compassion while the man still did not know who He was, until Jesus revealed Himself to him as the Son of God and the man worshiped Him. In it the Pharisees press the healed man again, demanding what Jesus did to him and how He opened his eyes. That healing was wonderful evidence of the truth of Christ's mission and divine mission, yet in prejudice and unbelief they resisted the truth and sought to discredit Him and conceal His mighty work. Their repeated questioning came not from any desire to learn, but from hearts hardened by prejudice, unbelief, envy and jealousy of Christ's popularity, hatred because He would not receive their ideas, and fear that He would be honored above them, which was willful spiritual blindness choosing to remain in darkness rather than receive enlightenment.
As self-righteous questioners they pressed him with contempt, sneers and hatred, despising one bought by the blood of Christ whom the Lord is anxious to save. They questioned him in an effort to confuse him, to persuade him to doubt what he knew from experience, to smother his testimony, and to close his eyes as they had closed their own. Behind their questioning evil angels worked to counter Christ's influence while God's angels strengthened the healed man, and their course put them out of harmony with God and united them with the adversary of God and man, revealing the conflict between light and darkness. Their response reveals them as false shepherds who scattered the sheep by rejecting and casting out one who testified to Jesus' power.
The healed blind man stands as the poor sinner, the wandering lost sheep after whom the compassionate Shepherd is seeking with the sympathy of all heaven enlisted on his behalf. As Satan's delusions are broken he is called to look to Calvary and the cross and to contemplate the costly offering given to save an apostate and ruined race. He is to be deeply moved and repentant at the love of God, and by beholding Christ to be changed and transformed in character from glory to glory.
This question belongs to the account of Jesus healing a man born blind, to whom He showed compassion while the man still did not know who He was, until Jesus revealed Himself to him as the Son of God and the man worshiped Him. In it the Pharisees press the healed man again, demanding what Jesus did to him and how He opened his eyes. That healing was wonderful evidence of the truth of Christ's mission and divine mission, yet in prejudice and unbelief they resisted the truth and sought to discredit Him and conceal His mighty work. Their repeated questioning came not from any desire to learn, but from hearts hardened by prejudice, unbelief, envy and jealousy of Christ's popularity, hatred because He would not receive their ideas, and fear that He would be honored above them, which was willful spiritual blindness choosing to remain in darkness rather than receive enlightenment.
As self-righteous questioners they pressed him with contempt, sneers and hatred, despising one bought by the blood of Christ whom the Lord is anxious to save. They questioned him in an effort to confuse him, to persuade him to doubt what he knew from experience, to smother his testimony, and to close his eyes as they had closed their own. Behind their questioning evil angels worked to counter Christ's influence while God's angels strengthened the healed man, and their course put them out of harmony with God and united them with the adversary of God and man, revealing the conflict between light and darkness. Their response reveals them as false shepherds who scattered the sheep by rejecting and casting out one who testified to Jesus' power.
The healed blind man stands as the poor sinner, the wandering lost sheep after whom the compassionate Shepherd is seeking with the sympathy of all heaven enlisted on his behalf. As Satan's delusions are broken he is called to look to Calvary and the cross and to contemplate the costly offering given to save an apostate and ruined race. He is to be deeply moved and repentant at the love of God, and by beholding Christ to be changed and transformed in character from glory to glory.