Sunday 19th March 2023
John 9: 1- 41 – A model of faith The healing of the blind man in John 9 has always played an important role in the instructional work of the church. Along with the stories in John 4 (the Samaritan woman) and 5 (the paralytic), the blind man appears in early catacomb art as an example of conversion/baptism. In all three stories water is the agent of regeneration, and the patristic and medieval church quickly applied them to its baptismal…