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1. What are some of your earliest mental pictures of Jesus?
2. Read HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9" John 9. What do you admire about the blind man?
3. What do you think Christ's words in HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A1-5" John 9:1-5 meant to the blind man at this point?
4. How would you describe the beggar's faith as he responded to the situations in HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A6-12" John 9:6-12?
5. Study the beggar's conversation with the Pharisees in HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A13-34" John 9:13-34. What pressures did he have to cope with?
6. Notice the references to sin in HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A1-2" John 9:1-2, HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A29" 29 and HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A34" 34. Why are these kinds of accusations particularly painful?
What is wrong with the view of sin portrayed by these accusations?
7. HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A16" John 9:16 says that the Pharisees were divided in their opinion of Jesus. Why?
How did the beggar draw on the debate he had heard between the Pharisees as he developed his own view of Jesus?
8. Study Christ's closing conversation with the beggar in HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A35-41" John 9:35-41. How did the events leading to HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A34" John 9:34 prepare the beggar for this second meeting with Jesus?
9. Study the beggar's statements of faith in HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A11-12" John 9:11-12, HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A17" 17, HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A25" 25, HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A27" 27, HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A30-33" 30-33, and HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A36-38" 36-38. How does each statement reflect a gradual opening of his spiritual eyes?
10. What are some of the stages that your own faith has passed through?
11. If you were to explain to the Pharisees Christ's statement about blindness and sight in HYPERLINK "http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Jn+9%3A39-41" John 9:39-41, what would you say to them?
12. The beggar spent many years in darkness preparing to see. How have the "dark times" of your own life prepared you for deeper faith in Jesus?
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