Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-chapter by chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

Jesus disputes with the Pharisees as we pick up in John chapter 9 verse 1.

And now with today's study, here's's Pastor Chuck so we turn now in our

Bibles to the gospel according to John chapter 9 Jesus have been having a dispute with the Pharisees

in the temple at the time of the feast of the tabernacles,

six months or so before the Passover in which he was crucified.

And in the eighth chapter,

it records his conversations with them,

with his declaring unto them, before Abraham was I am. And so the last time we saw Jesus, they were taking up stones to throw at him, and he passed by them and left the temple precincts.

And as Jesus passed by, the ninth chapter opened, so that's the background.

They just have taken up stones to throw at him because of his claim of deity

before Abraham was, I am. And as he passed by, he saw a man which was blind from birth. As far as the

gospel records, and only as far as the gospel records, surely there are others,

but the gospels only record this instance where Jesus healed a person of which the scripture

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