For September 16, 2026
Blind-Sighted by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
A TENSE SCENE TAKES PLACE at a synagogue in Jerusalem. Jesus has previously healed a man born blind. This took place on the Sabbath. “As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.’” (John 9:1-3) It was common for the Jews in Jesus’ time to view people afflicted with a disease, such as leprosy, or a deficient condition, in this example a blind man, were so because of sin. The sin may have been their own, or that of an ancestor, as Moses reveals. “The Lord does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.” (Num. 14:18; Ex. 34:7)