After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
The healing came by a second, completing touch, lifting partial, indistinct sight into full restoration in which every person was seen clearly. The disciples did not yet see clearly, though pointed beyond present poverty and humiliation to a coming in glory, not with an earthly throne but with divine glory and heavenly hosts to reward every person for works, and though promised for encouragement that some standing there would live to see that kingdom, they did not comprehend. Their eyes stayed fixed on the nearer view of earthly life and on glowing expectations of a Messianic kingdom and exaltation to David's throne, so they could not understand a humble, homeless life ending in rejection and death. With sadness oppressing their hearts from love for Him, and with doubt harassing their minds at such cruel humiliation of the Son of God, they questioned why He would voluntarily go to Jerusalem to suffer what He foretold and leave them in greater darkness than before He revealed Himself.
Without Christ's remedy people mistake error for truth and truth for error and fall into deception, and Jesus alone can make the sinful soul see clearly. Those who see spiritual realities only dimly, as people appearing like trees in motion, need divine help to see as God sees and to work as Christ worked, and that clearer sight enables watchmen to recognize danger and warn the people. Those who are spiritually blind may not grasp everything at once, and patient, wise instruction can help them see and experience the truth more fully. The church needs Christ to bring people out of unbelief and spiritual darkness into clearer sight, and meetings alone cannot help those who refuse the light. The change from seeing people indistinctly to seeing clearly describes a conversion to clear spiritual discernment, as in the case of Kilgore.
The healing came by a second, completing touch, lifting partial, indistinct sight into full restoration in which every person was seen clearly.
The disciples did not yet see clearly, though pointed beyond present poverty and humiliation to a coming in glory, not with an earthly throne but with divine glory and heavenly hosts to reward every person for works, and though promised for encouragement that some standing there would live to see that kingdom, they did not comprehend.
Their eyes stayed fixed on the nearer view of earthly life and on glowing expectations of a Messianic kingdom and exaltation to David's throne, so they could not understand a humble, homeless life ending in rejection and death.
With sadness oppressing their hearts from love for Him, and with doubt harassing their minds at such cruel humiliation of the Son of God, they questioned why He would voluntarily go to Jerusalem to suffer what He foretold and leave them in greater darkness than before He revealed Himself.
Without Christ's remedy people mistake error for truth and truth for error and fall into deception, and Jesus alone can make the sinful soul see clearly.
Those who see spiritual realities only dimly, as people appearing like trees in motion, need divine help to see as God sees and to work as Christ worked, and that clearer sight enables watchmen to recognize danger and warn the people.
Those who are spiritually blind may not grasp everything at once, and patient, wise instruction can help them see and experience the truth more fully.
The church needs Christ to bring people out of unbelief and spiritual darkness into clearer sight, and meetings alone cannot help those who refuse the light.
The change from seeing people indistinctly to seeing clearly describes a conversion to clear spiritual discernment, as in the case of Kilgore.