Welcome to part two with Dr. Janet Erickson, John chapter 7 through 10.

Here is this chapter 9 where we start out with this Jesus passed by.

He saw man which was blind from his birth and his disciples asked him saying,

master, who did sin? This man or his parents?

And you just read in those questions.

Here is that world belief that suffering is punishment

and that suffering would not exist at all if someone, you, me, the blind man,

the blind man's parents, Adam and Eve, whoever, hadn't deserved to suffer in the first place.

So they're clearly from that frame of mind that suffering is a just punishment,

that suffering is an accusation from God.

And here the Savior just answers, neither have this man sinned nor his parents,

but that the works of God should be made manifest.

What a story that just like cuts through like a two-edged sword into the truth.

Following up with what we just talked about, these themes of light and water,

what's going to happen with this man who lives in the dark because he's blind?

What's going to happen? Light and water, here they come.

At the pool of silo, no less, right?

It all ties in.

Janet, I think it's applicable for listeners too, who, when something bad happens,

we often think, what did I do wrong?

What did I do wrong to deserve this?

And Jesus would say, nothing, this is part of the plan.

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