The Good, the Right and the True

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From Pastor Chris Roseberg. The Holy Gospel according to St. John the ninth chapter. As Jesus passed by he saw a blind man from birth and his disciples asked him rabbi who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind.

Jesus answered it was not that this man sinned or his parents but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day night is coming when no one can work.

As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world and having said these things he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud and said to him go wash in the pool of Siloam which means sent.

So he went and washed and came back seeing. The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying is this not the man who used to sit and beg? Some said it is he. Others said no but it is like him and he kept saying I am the man.

So they said to him well how were your eyes opened? He answered the man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me go to Siloam and wash. So I went and I washed and I received my sight.

They said to him where is he? He said I don't know. So they brought him to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes so the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight and he said to them he put mud on my eyes and I washed and I see.

Some of the Pharisees said well this man is not from God for he does not keep the Sabbath but others said well how can a man who's a sinner do such signs and there was a division among them. So they said again to the blind man what do you say about him since he has opened your eyes?

He said well he's a prophet and the Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight and they asked them is this your son who you say was born blind?

How then does he now see? His parents answered we know that this is our son and that he was born blind but how he now sees we do not know nor do we know who opened his eyes ask him he's of age. He will speak for himself.

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be the Christ he was to be put out of the synagogue. Therefore his parents said he's of age ask him.

So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him give glory to God we know this man is a sinner. He answered whether he's a sinner I don't know. One thing I do know is that though I was blind now I see and they said to him well what did he do to you?

How did he open your eyes? He answered I've told you already and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples? And they reviled him saying you are his disciple but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God has spoken to Moses but as for this man we don't even know where he comes from. And the man answered why this is an amazing thing you don't even know where he comes from yet he opened my eyes.

We know that God does not listen to sinners but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will God listens to him. Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.

If this man were not from God he can do nothing. They answered you were born in utter sin and you would teach us and they cast him out. Jesus heard that they cast him out and having found him he said do you believe in the Son of Man?

He answered and who is he sir that I may believe in him. Jesus said to him you have seen him and it is he who is speaking to you. He said Lord I believe and he worshiped him. Jesus said for judgment I came into this world that those who do not see may see and those who see may become blind.

And some of the Pharisees near him heard these things and said to him are we also blind? And Jesus said to them if you were blind you would have no guilt and but now that you say we see your guilt remains.

This is the gospel of the Lord. Do any of you enjoy a good Western? I mean not a bad one, I'm talking about a really good Western. Now we can probably have a debate as to which are the best Westerns out there and I'm not talking about the hotel chain by the way.

Sorry pastor joke, pastor joke, just calm yourself down. Okay but all of that being said two of my favorite movies like that are Westerns. Number one, Tombstone. Okay it's legitimately at the top of my list and a close second is the outlaw Josie Wales right but the thing is we've become so used to how Westerns work right.

The Western American frontier was a lawless place and bad people did bad things to good people right. This is how this all works. One of things I love about Westerns is that the bad guys are really really bad right and the good guys as flawed as they are they legitimately have principles and they're standing up to do what's right.

They represent you know the law and bringing back law and order and things like this and so if you remember in the movie Tombstone the bad guys were actually called the cowboys right. They wore red sashes.

What a gay thing to do. Anyway anyway back in the day they wore black hats you know what's with the red sash right and while preaching with a pink... this sermon isn't going the way I expected. But all of that being said you'll note that in the character development phase of the movie in the and act one of the movie they show just how bad the cowboys are.

They crash a wedding and end up murdering the groom right just to let you know just how bad these guys are and so if you were to kind of think about these terms of like a Western as we read through some of like my favorite texts.

Last week's text was awesome. This week's text is brilliant. Next week's test is over the text is over-the-top amazing right. The Gospel of John these gospel texts they're kind of like watching your favorite movie over and over again because Jesus is that good right and so I like to think of this gospel text in terms like we think of like a Western.

It's maybe not in the beginning scenes but this is one of those things where the good guy has shown up and he's shown up in a place where the bad guys are literally in control and the bad guys are of all things religious leaders and you'll note that when you read the Gospel of John chapter 9 as we will do today it flows perfectly into the next chapter chapter 10 and Jesus makes it clear that all who came before him they were thieves and robbers right.

Thieves and robbers sounds like a Western right. And he's talking about the Pharisees and so over and again we must remember this the Pharisees do not equal people who read their Bible and hold to Christian orthodoxy all right.

So I've been called a Pharisee so many times it's like insane and I've gotten to the point where I actually have a web page and a video dedicated to the topic and say you've just played the Pharisee card.

Please read and watch this resource to help sort you out because you don't even know what a Pharisee is right. That's kind of the point they are thieves and they are robbers. And in our day we still deal with thieves and robbers who jump the fence and who make merchandise of Christ's sheep.

Over the past couple of weeks I don't know if you've been paying attention down in Australia a member of the Parliament of Australia has released documents financial documents talking about just how exorbitant of a lifestyle extravagant of a lifestyle Brian Houston and Bobby Houston have engaged in over the decades and he released no kidding in these documents financial records that show that bills for like stays in five diamond resorts that added up to a hundred grand what flights on private jets that were like 25 35 $50 ,000.

I mean huge amounts of money. And of course I'm sitting here going. I've been warning you guys about this guy for a long time. You're and everyone's shocked. I'm sitting haven't you seen the video where we're.

Brian Houston says you need more money. Right. And he this is what he's been teaching. And now they're shocked that he was out there spending money like well he was a he was royalty. But the thing is this is what these false teachers do.

And here's the thing they not only exploit you for money they legitimately oppress you in a way that you could potentially end up in hell. And over again. I'm surprised by how when Christians who actually have biblical discernment say that guy is a wolf they are the guy pointing out that he's a wolf.

They're shouted down. Oh you're just being too judgmental. You're being narrow-minded. Why do you think that your interpretation of scripture is inspired. There's a bill zillion different ways in which we can interpret the scriptures.

What makes you think that your interpretation is correct. Right. And all the while. Then the these wolves continue doing the wolfy things that they do. Because you know you know sheep bond wolves. Well they eat sheep.

That's what they do. And I think to our epistle text here that scripture is clear that this lays a fair attitude towards false teachers is not permitted. And you sit there. Well how do you figure a pastor.

Listen to what Paul writes under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit an apostle of Jesus Christ. For at one time you were darkness darkness. Remember the bad guy wears a black hat because of darkness that's the theme darkness.

But now because of your baptism because you have been washed in the blood of the Lamb because you've been brought to penitent faith in Christ with the forgiveness of your sins you are no longer of the darkness.

You are in the light. You are of the light and Jesus is the light. We are to walk or conduct our lives as children of light. For the fruit of the light is found in all that is good all that is right and all that is what's the last word true.

No lie is of the truth. We as Christians do not get the privilege as children of light to cast a blind eye or not look at when somebody is in a pulpit or leading a movement within the visible church no matter how popular it is and what they're preaching and teaching isn't true.

I recently took my wife on a date and I'm being ridiculed for doing this. Took her on a date and we went to the movie the Jesus revolution. I'm being accused of spousal abuse at this point. But here's the thing is that watching that movie was difficult because on the one hand as much as you want the the name of Christ to be proclaimed and you want to rejoice with a historical movement where many drug-addicted LSD trippin hippies were taught about Jesus Christ and we are to preach the gospel to all nations including our own and all the subsets of it including hippies and woke folks and people like that that's you.

You want to rejoice with that. But one of the things that the movie accurately depicted is is that the guy at the forefront of that Lonnie Frisbee he was a wingnut wackerdoodle. I mean his theology is right up there with Bill Johnson and all of today's NAR apostles and prophets.

And it's not. It is not something that is a coincidence that Lonnie Frisbee died of AIDS because the theology that he was preaching the Holy Spirit that he was listening to doesn't produce in a person the fruit of the Spirit produces something else.

And so when we get to our gospel text today you know rather than the good the bad and the ugly which would be a good Western theme right here we need to focus on the good the right and the true. As Christians that's where our focus is.

And again consider just absolutely how heroic Jesus Christ is. He has put himself on earth at a time when well evil is running rampant politically it's a complete mess. I mean Rome is in charge. Don't even get me started about whether Rome was a great was a great political system.

It wasn't. You think things are bad here in the States. I'll take what's going on right now over what was going on in Rome at the time of Christ. So politics is a complete mess. And as a result of that people's let's say moral lives were in complete turmoil which is basically is the standard operating procedure.

But the worst bit in all of this and I think the most duplicitous the most satanic and the most evil is that during the intertestamental period you have this this group of people the Pharisee they legitimately were usurpers.

You can go into your Old Testament and you can read from Genesis to Malachi the Italian prophet right the last of the prophets. And you will never see a single Pharisee there not one because they didn't exist.

They rose up during the 400 years in between Malachi and the time of Christ and these are people who had a very very very stringent religion. They were all about obeying God's law. But they added to the word contrary to the commands of Christ.

They added to it that whole tradition of the elders which becomes the Mishnah and the Talmud that whole thing that whole system was extra biblical revelation that they claimed was on par with the written Torah.

They were like Mormons and other things kind of all mixed up together. They added to the scriptures a whole bunch of commandments that weren't even there. In fact when they accused Jesus of not keeping the Sabbath one of the things I note little litmus test if you ever hear a preacher say well it says in the Bible that Jesus didn't keep the Sabbath.

So Jesus was a sinner. Well you don't know what you're talking about you are not qualified to be preaching and teaching. Yes it's true that they claim that Jesus didn't keep the Sabbath the Shabbat. But the reality is is that Jesus kept it perfectly.

He never broke the Sabbath not even a little bit. But he did break their rules regarding the Sabbath and the Shabbat. You'll note that when you look at the Talmuds and the Mishnahs and you get to their discussions and questions and the way they dialogue with this idea about keeping the Sabbath they actually get down to the dirt level all right.

So if in one of the I forget if it's in the Mishnah or not. Probably. But you if you owned a table and a chair and you had a dirt floor which was a common thing back then you know they didn't have Ikea.

Right. Okay and you had a dirt floor and while you were eating your meal the Sabbath began you were not permitted to push your chair back because you would create furrows in the dirt. And everyone knows that's the first stage of farming because that's plowing and therefore that you would be guilty of farming on the Sabbath if you did that I am not making this up.

So if you were if you were sitting in your chair on a Sabbath and you had a dirt floor you had to legitimately grab this thing and then sit up and scooch it back and put it down so that you wouldn't create furrows and break the Sabbath.

This is nuts. It is absolutely bonkers. And here's the other bit is that in their theology they didn't make a proper distinction between law and gospel. They didn't really understand the mercy of God at all.

And as a result of it their view of sin sounds a lot like today's prosperity preachers which is a much more akin to what you get in the concept of karma. Right. And so when the disciples asked Jesus who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind they're echoing the horribly awful theology of the Pharisees.

The reality is this is that there's a reason why people are born blind and it goes all the way to Adam and Eve. And you'll note that the kind of the capricious and nature of the consequences of sin we don't know how it's going to strike anybody in any particular way we can say in that sense that somebody did sin and it was Adam and Eve and we all fell in Adam's fall but they legitimately thought that this guy had committed sin and that was the reason why he was born blind.

And when you hear him hear them pushing him out and casting him out of the synagogue you'll hear them speak as if they were not born in sin as if they are not sinners. And that's a big problem. Those who are self-righteous are absolutely self-deluded.

And so think of this now as a Western a tumbleweed has just gone by. Right. And Jesus has come into town and the fellow that we're about to meet this blind man he's one of the favorite whipping boys of the bad guys known as the Pharisees.

Right. He's been pushed down. He's been called a sinner. Everyone's speculating as to why he's suffering miserably the way he is who sinned him or his parents. And you'll note that he is in bondage by these thieves and robbers who have come in.

And Jesus is going to clean up the religious town if you would. So as Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him rabbi who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind.

Jesus answered it was not that this man sinned or his parents but that the works of God might be displayed in him. I wonder how Kenneth Copeland deals with that phrase. Right. Because in Kenneth Copeland's theology any kind of physical ailment is from Satan.

In this particular case you're going to note that Christ says the reason why this fellow was born blind is not really because of sin but that the works of God might be displayed in him. In other words before the foundations of the earth Christ had worked this out that this man would be born blind specifically for this reason that we're reading today.

So Jesus says we must work the works of him who sent me while it is day night is coming. No one when no one can work as long as I am in the world I am the light of the world. Beautiful play. By the way you'll think why is Jesus talking about being the light of the world.

Because this blind man the only thing he knows is darkness. One of the things I hate doing is trying to navigate through my house at night. And I'm thankful for the places where we have strategically set up nightlights because otherwise I am prone to stubbing my toe hitting my shins or even worse falling down the stairs.

Okay I hate going down the stairs in the dark because I don't remember how many stairs I have to navigate and so I have to kind of you know work out. Have I reached the bottom yet. Because if I don't do that I'm gonna be face first on the ground.

And I'm not saying I've done that before. Maybe I have maybe three or four times but it always freaks my wife out when that happens and it does hurt. But all that being said we know you can't navigate in the dark.

It's difficult to do. And that's all that this guy has known his entire life. And so Jesus is making it clear he is the light of the world. And he's about to allow this person to see light for the very first time.

Have you ever seen a video where somebody was born deaf and they get that cochlear implant and they literally are filming them with an iPhone when the first time they switch it on. Right. Oh those are great videos.

It's especially when it's kids. It's kids for the first time because they have never heard a single sound their entire life. All they've heard forever their entire existence is silence. And then the doctor turns it on and not only do they hear sounds they hear their name for the first time they hear their mother's voice the first time.

And I always cry at those videos. And so does the kid and so does the parents. It's such an experience that it's amazing that we get to vicariously see such a thing. Right. That's the closest thing that you can think of.

This guy is about to see things for the first time. He's gonna see the sunshine. He's gonna see the trees and the faces of people for the first time. And so Jesus then. And boy does he pick an interesting way to do this.

Jesus spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. He anointed the man's eyes with the mud and said to him you go to you go and wash in the pool of Siloam. Now why did Jesus do this all. Right. I can't help but think of Genesis chapter 2 where God took dust of the earth.

Right. And he formed Adam's body from it. You know kind of if you were to think of it as like the guy who invented something right and put it all together. He knows how it works how it operates and Jesus knows exactly what to do in the situation.

And he's gonna fix this guy's eyes with some new dust and his own saliva and anoint him in such a way and restore to him his sight. It's kind of a type and shadow also of the sacraments if you think about it.

So he anointed this man's eyes with the mud and he said to him you go wash in the pool Siloam which means scent. And so he went and washed and he came back seeing. Now I could. I couldn't be a good Lutheran pastor without sitting there going.

Have you thought about the implications here regarding baptism. Right. Because we were all born dead and trespasses and sin in the darkness of the dominion of darkness blinded by the devil. And in the waters of baptism we were united with Christ in his death and his resurrection.

And there is the place where we were first able to truly see. God gave us our spiritual sight when he regenerated us when we were united to Jesus and his blood washed away our sins in the waters of baptism the connections to us are keen and important.

So this guy kind of by himself without the neighbors being there when he first opened his eyes he didn't expect that this was going to be what was going to happen. And he now sees things for the first time.

And after going through that initial joy and exuberance and the brilliance of being able to see he heads back to his neighborhood and his neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar which is about the only thing you can do as a job.

Back in those days if you're blind they were saying isn't this the man who used to sit here and beg. Some said that's him. It's him. It is other said nah it just looks like him. Maybe he has a twin. And they're they're playing a joke or something.

Right. But he kept saying hey go away me. I am the man I am him. So they said to them well how were your eyes opened. He answered the man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me go to Siloam and wash.

So I went and I washed and I received my sight. And they said to him well where is he. I don't know. I legitimately don't know. And so far as our Western the scene in our Western movies kind of played out Jesus the the one who does good has done something kind and loving and brilliant and praiseworthy for this fellow who was born blind.

But remember the Pharisees point to this guy as an example of what happens when you don't follow their false theology. Right. And so their favorite whipping boy has just been healed. And they don't have a whipping boy anywhere in close proximity.

They're gonna have to find another one. And so they're not going to be keen on having their whipping boy in their example of what happens when you don't follow their theology no longer being able to be used for such purposes because they are thieves and they are robbers.

So they brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. And my question is why. Why didn't they take him to the Levites. The Levites were the ones who were supposed to be preaching and teaching in Israel.

They were the ones who were supposed to be sitting on Moses seat in the synagogue. Why the Pharisees. Well that kind of shows that they had not only been firmly embedded in Israel they had taken over where they had no right to take over.

They were the religious authorities now that had to be informed as to what was going on. And it was of course the Sabbath when Jesus made the mud it opened his eyes. So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight.

He said to them well he put mud on my eyes and he washed and I see. And some of the Pharisees said this man is not from God for he does not keep the Sabbath. But others said how can a man who's a sinner do such signs makes me ask when I ask the question do you guys not see that you got our sinners.

What did the Pharisees think of themselves that they were righteous. So there was division among them. I love how Jesus when he does good upsets all their apple carts overturns all of their theological nonsense and kills their sacred idols.

So there was division among them. So they again said to the blind man what do you say about him since he's opened your eyes. They said well he's a prophet. And you'll note they're not acting in good faith with these questions.

But this man is acting in good faith in his answers. He's just legitimately innocently giving their answers that they're to the questions that they're asking. And I'm sure he's puzzled at this point because hello he was blind when he woke up this morning and brushed his teeth.

Right. And now he can see a legitimate miracle has taken place. God has visited his people and I'm sure he's just well. Of course Jesus is a prophet. He has to be. The last time we heard of any kind of miracles like these was well from Elijah and Elisha.

That's the last time we heard of anything like this. So the Jews at this point think that they're on candid camera. Okay. And so they're looking all right. Where's the camera. This is a joke. Right. You guys are gonna play this on next Friday on candid camera.

And and we're in the jokes gonna be on us. Where you're doing this to make us look like we're fools. Right. Really all right. So they didn't believe that he'd been blind and that he received a sight until they called his parents.

And that they called the parents of the man who had received a sight. And they asked them. And listen to these questions. Look at how. Listen how sharp these are. Is this your son whom you say was born blind.

How does he now see. Do any of you feel safe answering that question. The way it was put holy smokes. I'm surprised they didn't give him a cigarette and a blindfold. I mean they are literally under the French fry lights.

And this is an interrogation. This isn't an inquiry. This is something different. So his parents answered well we that we know. That's our son. And he yeah he was born blind. How he sees. We don't know.

Nor do we know nor would do we know. Who opened his eyes. Ask him he's of age. He'll speak for himself. Tata. Right. Run away. Run away. And the text legitimately says his parents said these things because they feared the Jews feared them.

This does any of this make sense to you. Jesus is the God of the Jewish Tanakh in human flesh the God they claim to worship has just opened the eyes of a man born blind. And rather than getting out the praise band and singing hallelujah they are legitimately conducting an interrogation as if a crime has taken place.

I think about a man I had the opportunity of having a conversation with just last week. He reached out to me because he used to be on staff at a very well-known megachurch in Texas. And I don't have permission to reveal which of them.

If I told you who the pastor was you know exactly which one. And what was fascinating is is that he was kicked off that the staff of that megachurch and the reason that was given when things started going south for him he started reading his Bible.

I kid you not. The way he tells the story is he started reading his Bible. And it wasn't too long before he became known at this church as the Bible guy. And that was not a compliment. That was legitimately an issue which ultimately led to them kicking him off.

Staff. Let that sink in for a second here. Oh yeah. You're the Bible guy here. Aren't you. Well this is a church. Isn't it. Is it right. You kind of see how this works. But I mean that's that's how crazy things are.

And it's all the way that crazy back in Jesus's time. That's the point here we are to focus on what is good. Right and true. Isn't God's Word true. How can it be a bad thing to be a Bible guy on a church staff.

Isn't everybody on the church staff supposed to be Bible guys. And I'm distracted. Let's get back to the movie. So this parents they said these things because they feared the Jews for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be the Christ he was to be put out of the synagogue.

Let me translate that anybody who confesses that Yeshua is Messiah that he is the Messiah is to be excommunicated. John Wick style. Of course. Right. Okay. Excommunicado. Anybody in a Jewish synagogue who believes that Jesus is the Messiah and he is is to be excommunicated.

Can't be a Bible guy at church can't believe in Jesus the Messiah. Okay. That's you'll note how evil operates human beings because of our sinful nature. We love lies. How's the song. Go tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies.

Tell me lies. Tell me lies. Right. That little Fleetwood Mac there. But there's something to that. And we want to hear it. Not only outside of the church. We want to hear those sweet little lies in church too.

Please tell me how good I am. Please tell me that if I just put money in the plate that God's going to bless me and give me health and wealth and stuff like this. Oh and and tell me that I'm going to go to heaven because I'm a good person.

Just tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies can't do that. As a pastor in Christ's Church have to preach the truth. The reason why this stuff succeeds is because we are all sinners. And we much prefer the lie over the truth.

And we're all guilty of this. I'm guilty of it. You are. So. This is the reason why his parents said well he's of age. You can ask him. So the second time they called the man who have been blind and they said to him give glory to God.

We know this man's a sinner. This reminds me of Martin Luther when he's on trial at the Diet of Worms. Right. You know Luther. Do you renounce everything that you've ever written in these books. Right.

And it's the same kind of thing. They don't. They're not interested in the truth. They're interested in this man recognizing that they are in charge theologically. And this Jesus guy who breezed into town and opened your eyes.

Oh you shouldn't have anything to do with him. Forget the fact that he did something kind to you. Right. We know that this guy's a sinner. And you're not. Uh-huh. Right. Pay attention to how that game is played.

So he answered well whether he's a sinner I don't know. One thing I do know I was blind. And now I see. And they said to him well what did he do to you. How did he open your eyes. This guy is legitimately on trial.

Legitimately he answered them. I've told you already. And you wouldn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again. Do you want to become his disciples. That is a great punch to the face. That was brilliant.

They didn't see that one coming. Yes this guy's stand in his ground. I was healed. Jesus did good to me. I was blind this morning. I can see what's wrong with you people. Right. That's the point. So in answer to this they reviled him.

Check your Bible. Look up the word revile. That's a sin. It is a sin to revile somebody. It's an egregious breaking of the eighth commandment. Right. In their face they revile this fellow. And yet they claim to be sinless.

They don't know their Bible at all. You are his disciple. We're disciples of Moses. We know that God has spoken Moses. As for this man we don't even know where he comes from as Shakespeare would say. Thou protested too much.

So the man answered I love this. Because I think he answered very coolly. Well why. This is an amazing thing. You don't know where he comes from. And yet he opened my eyes. We know that God doesn't listen to sinners.

But if anyone's a worshiper of God and does his will God listens to him. Right. Huh. Is that part of your theology. You Pharisees. Right. Never since the world began. Has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.

I have to correct him. Wasn't Adam born blind and deaf. And he wasn't breathing. Right. I'll forgive him this oversight. But that's kind of the point right. If this man were not from God he could do nothing.

This is the first mic drop before microphones were even invented. That's exactly what just happened here. Total mic drop. If he were not from God he can do nothing. And here it comes. Here it comes. The Pharisees like a sick cat hack up their theological hairball.

Okay. And it's kind of violent. Here you were born in utter sin. Right. Out comes their bad theology. Like demons spewing you know vomit across the room. You were born in utter sin. We weren't we were right.

And you would teach us who's in charge here. By the way I love this story. Christ is so they eck bollowed him. Yeah eck bollow. It's a little stronger than cast him out. You have to think. The eck bollow is something that a well a bouncer does to somebody who's not supposed to be in the nightclub.

They grab him get out of here throw him toss him out onto the street. That's what they did. They eck bollowed him. That's what the text says. They cast him out. Excommunication for you. Well what a lovely day.

All the joy of seeing for the first time. But here's the thing this particular miracle him being given his sight was on purpose to show the blindness of the Pharisees. That was part of the agenda of this.