Section 17
in the Son of God?" (9:35). The blind man re plied, "And who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?" (9:36). He believed, yet he did not know the Lord Jesus. Then the Lord said to him, "You have both seen Him, and He is the One Who is speaking with you" (9:37). Then the blind man declared, "Lord, I believe. And he worshipped Him" (9:38). He believed that the man Jesus is the Son of God. Thus, the blind man not only received his sight, but he himself was received by the Lord Jesus.
This means that the Lord, as the shepherd, entered the sheepfold, saw a little, blind sheep, opened his eyes, and then led that sheep out of the sheepfold. In one sense, the sheep was cast out; in another sense, the Lord led him out. The Pharisees cast him out, but the Lord Jesus carried him out. The Lord did not carry him out of hell but out of the sheepfold. The sheep fold was Judaism, the law-keeping religion. The blind man, like the blind and lame people on the porches in chapter five, was kept on the law- keeping porch. Then the Lord Jesus came, not only as life, but also as the shepherd, to lead him out of the fold.
The Lord is sovereign. Many of us were in the fold of religion. Perhaps you were there as