Something to think about with this verse. Jesus could have healed the man with a word, right? He does that in other places in Scripture. Why doesn't he do that here? Instead, he spits on the ground, makes some mud, and smears it all over this man's eyes, then sends him to wash in a pool. If you're the blind guy, you're not upset, because you're being healed, but later on, when reflecting on this, there was probably a moment where he wondered why Jesus couldn't have just said something and healed him, rather than make him walk around with spit-mud all over his eyes.
What's interesting, though, is that the man couldn't have made it to the pool on his own, right? He was still blind at this point. So he needed someone else to help him. Maybe what Jesus is doing here is teaching the church to be the church, so that we help one another out, no matter how messy we might be, no matter how much mud is covering our lives, maybe even publicly. Jesus is showing us that we're a community of faith that needs one another, especially in the hardest times of our lives.
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