The Bible In Paintings 74: JESUS HEALS A MAN BORN BLIND

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[Hebrews 11:6]

JESUS

HEALS

A MAN

BORN BLIND

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JOHN 9
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JOHN, Chapter 9

As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” Some claimed that he was.

Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”

But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”

“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.

He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”

“Where is this man?” they asked him.

“I don’t know,” he said.

They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”

Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”

But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.

Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”

The man replied, “He is a prophet.”

They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents. “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”

“We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.” His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”

He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”

Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?”

Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”

The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will. Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

“Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”

Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”

Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.

Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”

Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”

Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains."

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by LÉONARD GAULTIER, 1576
"The Man Born Blind"

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by ANNIBALE CARRACCI, 1605
"The Man Born Blind"

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"Healing of the Man Born Blind"

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"Healing of the Blind Man by Jesus Christ"

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"Jesus Gives Sight to One Born Blind"

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by YONGSUNG KIM
"Healing the Blind Man"

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by BRIAN JEKEL
"Jesus Healing the Blind Man"

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"The Man Born Blind"

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"Healing the Man Born Blind"

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"Christ Healing the Blind Man"

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[cdcdawg]

Thank you for posting these! As always!

I find #13 to be really interesting. Christ appears to be smiling in that one. You don’t usually see that. Also, His face in that image is very similar to that of the man being healed. It’s from another angle, but it looks like it could be the same person.

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I, too, like Jesus' smile in #13. Although unusual in biblical art, as you observed, His humor is a very substantial component of The Chosen, which wraps up its second season tomorrow.

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Good Morning, Dan. :-)

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Hi, Mary-Lou! Was blind but now I see!

[cdcdawg]

And why wouldn’t He express joy upon healing a blind man? Jesus seems to be generally portrayed as emotionless or concerned/sad; at least that is my impression. The smile is a really nice touch. It was the first thing I noticed in that painting. I don’t think I have ever seen it before.

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Moi Aussi!

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Well-argued. He is 100% divine and 100% human; God invented humor and is its Chief Practitioner, and humans smile and laugh often.

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Until modern times rarely would a person be painted or photographed smiling unless the artist wanted to insult his subjects. Religion and religious figures were taken very seriously, it would have been disrespectful to make them smile or laugh. Today, Christian artists depict the joyful part of Jesus’ human experience, artists like Kim and Olsen, to name just two.

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[cdcdawg]

Interesting. It really stands out. I will check them out. Thanks.

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That explains it--thank you, Alba!

While I understand, I think, the reverence which inspired that dourness and the ecclesiatical Inquisitionary Puritanicalism enforcing it, it seems obvious today what a failure that rigid viewpoint is in presenting the full counsel of God.