A bright sun bathed the marble-cloistered courts of Herod’s temple. Dozens of intense men stood on each of the terraces, listening to perceived outlandish words from a Carpenter’s son, and the more he spoke the more he built anger in the theological audience. Then the angry stares had become a need to grab stones. The mob-like Pharisees scattered. The Messiah had just shocked them with a Divine claim, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” They thought what he said to be an untamed statement made by a blasphemous radical and the only way they could harness this unleashed doctrine was to kill him. But as they feverishly sought for stones, The Rock of Ages walked out the door. He needed no protective flanks, or secret getaways; his destiny was death, but not on that day.  

As he left with his disciples, one of the disciples inquisitively observed a blind man sitting by the way. “Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Each disciple successively gave the same pensive nod. Jesus turned and responded with a warm but correcting tone. Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

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