JESUS HEALS A MAN BORN BLIND

John 9:1-41

Key Verse: 9:5

* TO DISPLAY THE WORK OF GOD (1-5)

1. What was the disciples' view of man when they saw the blind man? How did Jesus answer them? According to his answer, what seems to be man's purpose in life, regardless of his situation?

2. What did he mean by "as long as it is day"? How must we spend the precious and limited time we have on earth? What did Jesus say about himself? (5) Why is Jesus the light of the world?

* "GO... WASH IN THE POOL OF SILOAM" (6,7)

3. What did Jesus do to heal the man? What can we learn from Jesus in his way of healing the man? How might the man have reacted to this? What shows that he believed in Jesus? What can we learn here from Jesus?

* "ONE THING I DO KNOW" (8-34)

4. Why didn't the neighbors recognize the man that was well? How did he testify to them? What did he know about himself?

5. When the Pharisees saw the man born blind healed, what did they ask him? Why did they criticize Jesus? Why were their opinions about Jesus divided? (13-16)

6. When they asked the man for his own opinion about Jesus, what did he say? Why did this answer not satisfy them? (17,18)

7. When they questioned his parents, what did his parents say? Why didn't they want to get involved? (19-23)

8. What was the Pharisees' purpose in summoning the man a second time? What did they say they knew? (24) What is the one thing he knew? Why is remembering God's grace crucial to having real faith? (1 Cor.15:9,1,10a)

9. Why did they throw him out? (26-31)

* "DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE SON OF MAN?" (35-41)

10. How did Jesus help the man? Why did he need help? What did he do when he learned who Jesus was? What can we learn from Jesus about how to help others?

11. In what respect were the Pharisees blind? Why had they become so?