<TITLE>24. Par -</TITLE>L-777-157 Oh, probably a few thousand people standing there. But if he could... If them stinking Pharisees could only put a blight on His Name right there or done something to scare the people, they'd have run Him out of there for that meeting. See? All of His influence would been lost.
So they said, a bunch of them come up there with their priestly garments on and they said, "Speak for him."
They said, "We know this is our son; we know he was born blind; but now how he sees, I don't know. You ask him; he's of age." See?
All right. So they went over and got him. Said, "Who give you your sight? How'd he heal you?"
He said, "One called Jesus of Nazareth give me my sight."
And they said, "Give praise to God." Said, "Why, we know this man's a sinner." Said--and said, "Whence is he?"
He said, "I don't know. He just come by and healed me, and that's all I know about it. I know; one thing I do know. I couldn't tell you about Him being a sinner or not; I don't know, I just met the Man today. But if--if He could give me my--my sight, I know this one thing, that where I was once blind, I can now see. I'm sure of that, for I was blind a half hour ago, and now I got just as good sight as any of you fellows; so I know I can see."
Oh, what a stinger that put on them. So they thought, "Why..."

L-778-164 He said, why said, "Do you all want to be His disciples too?" That's good--that's good solid testimony. That's--that--that's good--that's good backgrounds. That--that's--that's a really good witnessing, and what I'd say.
Said, "Do you all..." Here's a lay member, a blind man, standing on the street after meeting Jesus, now asking the disciples--asking the Pharisees if they want to be His disciples, the bishops, head men. "You want to be His disciples also?"
They said, "Nay, you're his disciple; we're Moses' disciple (looking way back down through history, you know). We're Moses' disciple. This man, we don't know nothing about him; we don't know where he come from. Well, we haven't got a rule of any of our schools he ever come up. He never come in and asked us about these things. (See?) We don't know nothing about it. You people out there, you realize that man's not ordained? That man's a soothsayer or something; he's Beelzebub. You're being bewitched. Why, he doesn't have any authority; we haven't give it to him yet. (See?) We don't even know whence this man comes from."

L-778-167 This old boy standing there could see said, "Now, this is a marvelous thing." See, he's about to get the people beat down, these Pharisees was, making them afraid. See? But he'd done took sides with Jesus. See? So he said, "This is a marvelous thing." (Let me break it down in some of the words he might've said.) "Now, you fellows around here has been running all the religious end of this for hundreds of years, and you speak of a coming Messiah and something that's going to take place just in the shadows of time, when the Deliverer is coming to see us. And you tell us that when He comes that--that--what all He's going to do. And here, you, the spiritual leaders, the high priests and priests of this community, standing here together before these people, and trying to blacken His Name, trying to say something evil against Him, and the Man come and opened my blinded eyes. I was born blind. Here's my father and mother giving witness that I was born blind, been setting right here among you for all these years, born blind. And that has never happened since the world began. And here a Man can come and perform a miracle that hasn't been done since the world begin, and you, the spiritual leaders, and don't know nothing about it?" (Whew. Hm.) Said, "I say this is a marvelous thing." He took sides with Jesus. See?


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