When a blind man starts seeing, people start asking questions.  This young man, who Jesus healed, had never seen anything (John 9:1).  He was born blind, and everybody expected that he would always be blind and have to beg for his living.  They assumed that nothing could change.  So, when he walked around in the town unaided, the local people could not believe their eyes.  Who is he?  Is this really the same man?  Can people really change that much?
 

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10).  It is right to have an awesome respect for our Maker and for His Word.  Whatever He says is right and true, and all those who submit to Him are blessed.  However, being afraid of people who hate Jesus is not good.  The parents in today's passage had just experienced a life-changing event.  Their son, who had been born blind, could now see.  His joy was not hidden from them.  They knew that Jesus had healed him.
 

Giving sight to a man, who had been born blind, was no ordinary event.  Yet the religious leaders refused to accept that Jesus' miracles were a sign of the presence of God.  They hated Jesus because He exposed them as shallow, money-grabbing, power-hungry and self-glorifying (Luke 16:14-15).  So, the Pharisees twice interrogated the healed man and questioned his parents, trying to find any reason to discredit Jesus.  Eventually, after they had asked many questions, the man provocatively asked if they also wanted to be disciples of Jesus (John 9:27).
 

An old English expression says, ‘There is none so blind as those who will not see.’  It means that although there is nothing wrong with their eyesight, they ignore the truth they already know; therefore, they cannot see or understand what is in front of them.  The Pharisees did that.  They had already made up their minds that Jesus was a sinner who could not have come from God (John 9:24), preferring to believe lies in order to avoid what was obviously true about Jesus.