The Pharisees skeptically asked Jesus in this Text of Scripture, “Are we blind?” (Verse 40) And they were, spiritually!

But they did not know that they were! More precisely, they would not acknowledge that! They considered themselves true “seers!” An Old Testament word for a Prophet! It means “one who sees!” A sad situation indeed! (Like “blind eye specialists!”)

I called our Text (in the video class, the Evening Meditation) a “Reversal Saying” of Jesus. Here are three more, for comparison …

Mark 8:35 … “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.”

Mark 10:43-44 … “But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.”

And Matthew 23:12 … “And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.”

Wow!

In the Book of Isaiah particularly, when the Messiah comes blind people will see. That’s Bible prophecy and it happened during Jesus’ Ministry! Again, I give you a few among many …

Isaiah 29:18 … “And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.”

Isaiah 42:18 … “Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.”

Then in reverse … Isaiah 6:10 … “Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.”

Isaiah 56:10 … “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.”

In our Passage yet again, I had not time to say that Jesus was often misunderstood …

John 2:18-21 … “Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body.”

John 3:3-4 … ” Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

John 4:10-11 … “Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?”

John 6:50-52 … “This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Listen to Jesus describe these Pharisees in Matthew 15:14 … “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”

Wow!

But I did not leave out lots of other information! Watch the Class now and you will “see” …

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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