Article November 21, 1983 Issue

New insights from Bible pages

JOHN D. MOORHEAD

Some Bible stories are read so many times that one finally tends to skim through them. I've heard all this before, the reader finds himself concluding. And then, suddenly, those familiar events flash with new meaning, meaning that was there all along waiting to be discovered.

This happened to me recently with the ninth chapter of John. Basically I had been reading only the plot of this account, which tells how Christ Jesus healed the man blind from his birth.

The events are clear enough. Jesus saw a blind man, and his disciples asked whether the man's sins or those of his parents had caused the blindness. Jesus said: "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. ... As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

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