How do we sort through that tangle of a story? It was hard enough to stay with it, right? Forty-one verses! Such a long story, and it’s complicated.
It’s about an unsought healing. It’s about the blame game. It’s about the process and progress of conversion. It’s about how wrong-headed following the rules can be. It’s about how easy it is to confuse blindness and seeing.
I imagine John had all these things in mind, and more, as he crafted this account of an unnamed man’s move from one way of being in the world to another. And his hearers, beginning with that first century community in which he lived and wrote, and stretching on down through the centuries to you and me – have been recognizing ourselves in this story, ever since.
Who among us has not, when we don’t know what else to do, thought that if we could just figure out whose fault a tragedy is, somehow that would make it better? (read more)
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