True
blindness
In this story we learn about three types
of characters. The parents who are afraid to do wrong by the Jews, the Jews who
don’t believe and discredit everything the young man says and finally the young
man who is very courageous and stands up to the Jews for what is right.
In our lives we should strive to live
like the young man and stand up to the people who are wrong and living in sin.
We should be brave to call Jesus the Son of Man, the long-awaited Messiah.
It is weird that the Jews claim not to
know who Jesus is, when in reality they fear Him for what He will do next. In
their minds they believe He works for Satan and not for God, because earlier in
the passage it is made clear that the healing was done on the Sabbath. This is
of course the Holy day which must not be defiled.
On the other hand Jesus is not acting
like they expected the Messiah to handle. The Jews have conjured up an image of
him by interpretation of the prophesies which are in the Holy scripture. This
is why they are and will stay blind until they truly open their eyes and
acknowledge that He is the true Messiah. They are walking through life with
blinkers on, which they can’t shake off themselves and see the truth about
Jesus.
This is because they have completely
misunderstood the meaning of the Sabbath. The Jews have made the rules of
abiding by the Sabbath a lot more rigorous then God had commanded it. In
Matthew 12: 1 – 14 Jesus points out that it was not wrong to eat on the
Sabbath, even if you’ve had to work for it. Nor was it wrong to do good on the
Sabbath, like healing which is the work of mercy. The Lord of the Sabbath is
after all merciful so he doesn’t mind us or Jesus doing works of mercy on the
Sabbath.
On a final note in the lyrics of Amazing
Grace namely in the first verse there is a reference to this bible passage.
Jenny Freeman
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