Letting someone else do the work again today. Not sure much about C. E. Stuart. Have not read much or heard of outside of today’s commentary. I pray God touches his words and our hearts.
Still promoting the new part of my blog where I ask questions in hopes that others will teach me. I added a new one Who did they give glory to? (these will be accessed on the blog or in a hyper-link in the question that follows the verses in the future)
Extra credit is from Donald Bell a pastor from Tenn. “Meditate today on these four words, as they relate to the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which we are redeemed: SOVEREIGNTY –SUCCESS – SUBSTITUTION – SATISFACTION…”
Jhn 9:13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
Jhn 9:14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
Jhn 9:15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
Jhn 9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
- There was division among them, did either group give glory to the correct person, who did they give glory to?
"Now the former blind beggar was to become an object of special notice by the Pharisees. Very likely many of them had passed him unheeded. A blind beggar! Which of them would bestow a thought on him whose condition they regarded as an evidence that he was born in sin? But the beggar, no longer blind, was quite a different matter. Were they anxious to learn of the favor he had received in order to honor his Benefactor, or to solicit in their turn favors from Him? Quite the contrary. Their efforts were directed to discredit the miracle as being wrought by One sent from God. He who had shortly before affirmed of Himself in the Temple court, that He was God, had now opened that man’s eyes. The insult to the Divine Majesty, as the Jews regarded it, in asserting His Deity, was followed by this miracle, of which the beggar in the Temple precincts was the subject. To discredit the Lord was their purpose. He was a Sabbath-breaker they declared; and therefore that miracle must be disowned as being any display of almighty power and benevolence" (C. E. Stuart).
