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SCRIPTURES & ART: Jesus, who comes to restore and transfigure fallen man, heals us body and soul. El Greco, “The Man Born Blind,” ca. 1573, Metropolitan Museum of Art (photo: Public Domain) ...
It’s the fourth Sunday of Lent and today’s reading is the healing of our Lord Jesus Christ of the man born blind. If we printed the entire gospel, we’d run out of space. But this passage ...
This is what the people did to the blind man when he cried out.” Pope Francis spoke to the thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his June 15 general audience.
Aug 9, 2005 / 22:00 pm Workers in Old Jerusalem have stumbled onto the ruins of the Pool of Siloam, where Jesus, in the Gospel of John, heals a man blind from birth--the new find is being praised ...
First, “Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind,” the subhead forverses 1-12. The second subhead forverses 13 - 41is “The Pharisees Investigate the Healing.” ...
"It was at this site that Jesus healed the blind man (John:9), and it is at this site that, 2,000 years ago, Jewish pilgrims cleansed themselves prior to entering the Second Temple.
A new excavation project in Jerusalem has unearthed steps unseen in over 2,000 years at a place where the New Testament records Jesus as having healed a blind man. The Israel Antiquities Authority ...
Jesus changes his protocol again in John 9:6,7 when he spits on the ground, making mud that he put on the blind man’s eyes. Jesus then told him to go wash in the Pool of Siloam. Both of these ...
It happened one too many times. My Seeing Eye dog and I went to church and heard another totally uninspiring homily about John 9, the story of the man born blind. It contained the usual elements ...