"It was not because of his sins or his parents' sins," Jesus answered. "This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.

We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us. 

The night is coming, and then no one can work.  But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world."

John 9:3-5 NLT

Jesus takes the heat off us about being good enough.

You are enough.

He doesn't give us a nice easy answer about suffering and why this man was born without the ability to see. 

He doesn't give us a nice easy answer about a society that God instructs to look after the marginalised and the poor allows this man to live as a beggar.

He lifts it up a level. 

And that's annoying. I want an easy answer for why innocent people suffer. 

Jesus doesn't give us one. 

He goes to a bigger story, a story of God at work in the world, and about Jesus being the Light. 

The word in this verse translated here as "seen" is the word "phaneroo". It means to make things visible, clear, make known. 

Jesus is telling his team there's more to see here than blame for a congenital defect. 

I'm the Light of the World, not sure that you can see that, so I'm going to make it visible to you.

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