Something happened in Jerusalem that stopped the neighborhood. A man who had been blind from birth—known to everyone as the beggar at the gate—came home seeing. The people who passed him every day could not decide if it was even the same person. Even as he kept insisting: I am the man. What do you do with that?

In this week's sermon from John 9:6-12, this miracle is not a curiosity from the ancient world: it is a claim about the nature of Jesus and the nature of spiritual reality. John tells us that Jesus is the Light of the World. This healing is the evidence.

And the deeper question it raises is not merely whether a blind man received his sight, but whether you and I are seeing clearly or stumbling through life in a darkness we have not yet recognized as blindness.