blindness

blindness
Animals [[➝ animals]] that were blind were unfit for sacrifices (Lev. 22:22), and priests who were blind were disqualified from sacrificing (Lev. 21:16–24), though the community was instructed to care for the blind (Lev. 19:14). Blindness also becomes a symbolical term—the eyes of the blind opened by God is a vivid expression for the recognition of the signs of the age (Isa. 29:18). In the NT, where the healing of blind persons is one of the indications of the coming of the Kingdom [[➝ kingdom of God]], the gradual healing of the blind man at Bethsaida (Mark 8:22–6) is significant; it is what is happening to the disciples, and at Caesarea Philippi a partial insight is reached by Peter (Mark 8:29). Similarly Bartimaeus' healing (Mark 10:46–52) is a vivid illustration of the new insights of all disciples who follow Jesus on the way (10:52), that is, of disciples who follow him on the Christian way (Acts 9:2). A man blind from birth whose sight was restored by Jesus (John 9:6–7) became a believer (9:38); he is converted, which implies rejection of Judaism and expulsion from the synagogue (9:22).

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