I love how Jesus turns things around. A man who had been blind from birth was thought to have sin in his life, or his parent's life, that had caused his blindness. But Jesus set the record straight by saying that it happened so the work of God might be displayed in his life. Then it turns out that the blind man can see better than the scholars in the synagogue who had been studying all their lives. Suddenly they are the ones asking him all the questions. But they weren't willing to accept his answers and even admitted in regard to Jesus, "...as for this fellow, we don't even know where he comes from." I love the 'blind' man's response.
John 9:30-33 "Now that is remarkable! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will. Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
I'd say it would be better to have been the blind man who experienced the power of God and a real revelation in his life -than to have studied all my life in the synagogue and never experienced or recognized the power of Jesus and the revelation of who He is. He was, afterall, the very One they were studying about and waiting for. Who's the blind one in this story?
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