Year A
John 9:1-41
This passage, the healing of the beggar who was born blind, is a passage filled with people asking the wrong questions. The disciples ask the first of these, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
The question that counts is not “Who sinned?” Blindness or illness or physical disability or natural disaster is not about moral failing or sinful behavior. The question that counts is...