This morning reading through John 9, I noticed an odd juxtaposition I had never noticed before. In the exchanges between the Jewish leaders and the blind man’s parents, and then the blind man himself, something curious happens.
“These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue” (John 9:22).
“They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him . . .” (John 9:34-35).
In other words, I don’t think Jesus looked the blind man up again because the Jews had been mean in the conversation and kicked him out of the room. It appears that they excommunicated him, “cast him out.” In short, they did to him what his
parents had feared they would do to them.
When Jesus heard of it, He looked Him right up, as much as to say that believers ought not to mind being kicked out of churches that the Lord Himself has been kicked out of.