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The man mentioned in this chapter was born blind. We find the Lord’s disciples asking Him:
“Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
Jesus answered, “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be manifest in him.”
When He had thus spoken, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him:
“Go wash in the pool of Siloam.”
The blind man went his way and washed, and his eyesight was restored.
Observe what that man did. He did just what Christ told him to do. The Savior’s command to him was to go to the pool of Siloam and wash; and “he went his way therefore, and came seeing.” He was blessed in the very act of obedience.
Another thought: God does not generally repeat Himself. Of all the blind men who were healed while Christ was on earth, no two were healed in exactly the same way. Jesus met blind Bartimeus near the gates of Jericho, and called him to Him and said:
“What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?”