BIG PICTURE: This chapter portrays what happens when Jesus, the light of the world, shines: some are made to see, like the man born blind, while others, who think they see, turn away, blinded, as it were, by the light. 

1. The sign: Jesus, the light of the world, heals a man born blind (1-12)</span >
2. The investigation by the Pharisees (13–34)</span >
   • The first interrogation of the healed man (13–17)</span >
   • The interrogation of the man’s parents (18–23)</span >
   • The second interrogation of the healed man (24–34)</span >
3.  The sight of the blind and the blindness of the sighted (35–41)</span >

• This sermon owes a debt to D.A. Carson’s “The Gospel According to John”, and “How Long, Oh Lord: Reflections on Suffering and Evil.”</span >