They came back at the blind man, "You're the expert. He opened your eyes. What do you say about him?" He said, "He is a prophet." John 9:17

Image: A still of the Keystone Kops

A comedy sketch...

Blind man: "I've told you over and over and you haven't listened. Why do you want to hear it again? Are you so eager to become his disciples?" With that the Pharisees jumped all over him.Blind man: "This is amazing! You claim to know nothing about him (Jesus), but the fact is, he opened my eyes! ...If this man didn't come from God, he wouldn't be able to do anything." Pharisees: "You're nothing but dirt! How dare you take that tone with us!" Pharisees throw blind man out in the street.

But the fact is, he opened my eyes!*

This is one plucky man, making heavy use of sarcasm and sticking to his guns. The scene reminds me of the Keystone Kops, the mad tooing and froing of the Pharisees running from blind man, to the parents back to the man. Evasion from the parents and infuriating responses from the retrobate who was formerly blind and who budges not a inch from retelling his experience and throwing back his own spikey observations!

As I listen to this statement of experience* and the response within me what desire or challenge is stirred within me? Is there a prayer or action that emerges?