Iesus Healeth The Blind On The Sabbath.
1. AND at another time as Iesus passed by, he saw a man (which was blind from his birth). And his disciples asked him saying,
Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
2. Iesus answered,
To what purport is it, whether this man sinned, or his parents, so that the works of God are made manifest in him? I must work the works of my Parent who sent me, while it is day; the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the Light (of the world).
3. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and mingled clay with the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay And said unto him,
Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (this meaneth by interpretation, Sent.)
He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
4. The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said,
Is not this he that sat and begged?
Some said,
This is he:
others said,
He is like him:
but he said,
I am he.
5. Therefore said they unto him,
How were thine eyes opened?
He answered and said,
A man that is called Iesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
6. Then said they unto him,
Where is he?
He said,
I know not where he is, that made me whole.
7. Then came to Him certain of the Sadducces, who deny that there is a resurrection, and they asked him saying,
Master, Moses wrote unto us, if any man’s brother die having a wife and leaving no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed to his brother.
8. Now there were six brethren, and the first took a wife and he died childless: And the second took her to wife and he died childless: And the third, even unto the sixth, and they died also leaving no children Last of all the woman died also.
9. Now in the resurrection, whose of them is she, for the six had her to wife.
10 And Iesus answered them saying,
whether a woman with six husbands, or a man with six wives, the case is the same. For the children (of this world) marry and are given in marriage.
11. But they, which being worthy, attain to the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage, neither can they die any more, for they are equal to the angels and are the children (of God) being the children of the resurrection.
12. Now that the dead are raised even Moses shewed at the bush, when he called the Lord (the God Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) for he is not the God (of the dead) but of the living, for all live unto Him.
LECTION 53. 3. -The healing of the blind by means of clay mingled with saliva is mentioned by ancient physicians. Vespasian is said to have cured by this means. This shows that Jesus did not hesitate to employ natural remedies, when they were likely to effect their purpose.