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Day 22 of 47 going through John's gospel - more info at https://www.severnvineyard.org/time-space-jesus

What could happen if you take time and make space with Jesus today? This ten-minute podcast is part reading, part music, and part silence, all designed to help you create a space to picture and feel the scene with Jesus in it. You can use this space in lots of ways, including meditation, prayer, re-reading the passage or thinking about what it means for you today.

Today's reflection: How do you, or people you know well, struggle to believe in God sometimes? What questions would you ask someone who claims to have changed because of Jesus?

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As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, \u201cRabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, so that he was born blind?\u201d

Jesus answered, \u201cThis man didn\u2019t sin, nor did his parents; it\u2019s so that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of the one who sent me while it is daytime. Night-time is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.\u201d When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man\u2019s eyes with the mud, and said to him, \u201cGo, wash in the pool of Siloam\u201d (which means \u201cSent with a mission\u201d). Then the blind man went away, washed, and came back seeing.

So the neighbours and the people who knew him as a beggar before said, \u201cIsn\u2019t this the man who used to sit and beg?\u201d Some were saying, \u201cIt is.\u201d Others were saying, \u201cNo, it just looks like him.\u201d

He answered them, saying, \u201cI am.\u201d

So they said to him, \u201cHow were your eyes opened?\u201d

He answered, \u201cA man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, \u2018Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.\u2019 So I went away and washed, and I received sight.\u201d

Then they asked him, \u201cWhere is this man?\u201d

He said, \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d

They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees. It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. The Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight. He said to them, \u201cHe put mud on my eyes, I washed, and now I see.\u201d

So some of the Pharisees said, \u201cThis man is not from God, because he doesn\u2019t keep the Sabbath.\u201d

But others said, \u201cHow can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?\u201d So there was division among them, and they asked the blind man again, \u201cWhat do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?\u201d

The man answered, \u201cHe is a prophet.\u201d

The Jews then didn\u2019t believe that this man had been blind and had received his sight, until they called for his parents and asked them, \u201cIs this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he see now?\u201d

His parents answered them, \u201cWe know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but how he sees now, we don\u2019t know; or who opened his eyes, we don\u2019t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.\u201d His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who had already agreed that if anyone declares Jesus as the Christ, they would be expelled from the synagogue. That is why the parents said, \u201cHe is of age. Ask him.\u201d