John 9:1-34: “Jesus Heals
Blindness In A Man Born Blind And Then The Pharisees Try To Discredit The
Healed Man And Jesus”
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1.
INTRO:
1.1.
In our last study we looked at verses 31 – 59 of chapter 8.
1.1.1. Jesus continued arguing with the Pharisees who were
challenging Him to reveal to them plainly who He really is. However, as He revealed Himself to them they
had no ability to understand the things that He was saying to them about
Himself.
1.1.2. Jesus began to reveal who He is to these Pharisees in
the temple until He finally spoke so clearly to them about His pre-existence as
deity that they believed He had blasphemed and picked up rocks to stone Him.
1.2.
In our
study today, we are going to look at verses 1-34 of chapter 9.
1.2.1. In this study, we will see that as Jesus is passing
through
1.2.2. Rather than being compassionate towards the man and
seeing if Jesus might heal the man, Jesus’ disciples ask Jesus whether or not
the man’s blindness was caused by his own sins or the sins of his parents. We will discuss how we should in thought and
deed approach situations with people where they for whatever reason have had to
go through great amounts of suffering or deprivation.
1.2.3. Jesus performs a wonderful work of healing of the
man’s eyesight who was born blind, but then we will see that when the man goes
to the Temple that the Pharisees bring him and his parents to court in order to
try to disprove a genuine healing has occurred and discredit the healed man as
well as Jesus.
1.2.4. We will see how this healing by Jesus symbolizes
prophetically God’s work in restoring sinners to wholeness through salvation in
Christ.
1.2.5. We will see how this healed blind man becomes an
incredible and bold evangelist for Jesus and stands up for Jesus before the
Pharisees. The more I read and think about this man the more I admire him.
2.
VS
9:1-2 - “And as He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, ‘Rabbi,
who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?’”
- Jesus sees a man who was blind from
birth and His disciples ask Him if the man’s sin or his parent’s sin has caused
the man to be blind
2.1.
There has been much argument as to when exactly this
story began. However, the events of
chapter 9 occurred the day after the end of the Feast of Tabernacles (six
months before Jesus’ crucifixion) and it does not appear that much time has
elapsed since those events, especially as Jesus statement in verse 5 about
being the light of the world is coupled right with His “I am the light of
the world” statement in chapter 9.
2.2.
The text begins the story saying that Jesus passes by
and sees a man who is blind, and has been blind from his birth, and we will see
that Jesus is moved with compassion for the man for He heals him of his
blindness.
2.3.
Jesus’ disciples are schooled in the thoughts of the
people of their day. They think that all
misfortune and illness is the result of sin.
They do not look at this man with any compassion but rather with a
critical and judgmental eye, as they ask Jesus whose sin has caused the man to
be born blind?
2.3.1.
It is a sad thing when the misfortune of people, even
when it is largely deserved, does not cause God’s people to have empathy and
compassion towards them. Truly, our hearts
as people are so calloused to people and their suffering in comparison to the
heart of the Lord for people.
2.4.
There have been various theories to explain how the
disciples might have thought that the man’s sin could have caused him to be
born blind?
2.4.1.
It is speculated that in asking this question that
Jesus’ disciples believed in reincarnation, that souls migrated after death,
and therefore that this man’s sin of a previous life caused him to be born
blind. Arthur Pink points out that the
Babylonians (where the doctrine originated), Persians, Greeks, Essenes, and
Gnostics held to this doctrine and that it was very prevalent in that day. There are a few New Testament scriptures that
seem to indicate that there was a belief in reincarnation among the people,
including:
2.4.1.1.The
scripture says that Herod thought at one point that Jesus might be John the
Baptist, whom he had beheaded.
2.4.1.2.When Jesus asked His disciples whom people thought He
was that they stated that people thought that He might be John the Baptist (who
was dead at that time), Elijah, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
2.4.2.
Some have postulated that the man was thought by the
disciples to possibly have been born blind due to the sins which God knew he
eventually would commit. If the
disciples held his view it contradicts the standard of justice found in the
word of God.
2.4.3.
Others have speculated that the disciples might have
believed that the man actually sinned in the womb, and if this was the case
they may have been influenced by various Old Testament scriptures that indicate
that men and women are sinners right from birth.
2.5.
The inquiry of the disciples about whether or not the
man’s blindness came from his parent’s sin probably comes from Exodus 20:5
where it states that the Lord will visit the iniquity of the fathers on the
children, “5 “You shall not worship them or serve them; for I,
the Lord your God, am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the
fourth generations of those who hate Me.”
2.6.
The Lord has compassion upon our sufferings. We see this over and over in the gospels, and
it is a comfort to all Christians to know of the Lord’s empathy for us in our
sufferings!
2.7.
This story brings out the consideration of why bad
things sometimes happen to good people and why there appears to be inequity in
why some are blessed and others suffer great hardship. The disciples who are following the callous
thinking of their day concerning a person’s suffering being deserved should
have thought about what the scriptures teach us about suffering in the book of
Job in the Old Testament. The disciples’
question very much resembles the accusations of Job’s accusers who were in the
wrong in accusing him of suffering on account of his sin.
2.8.
We as a church must never take the stand that a
person’s suffering or misfortune is the result of their sin. We really do not know why the Lord allows
some to go through times of great suffering and we have no business being
judgmental and drawing conclusions.
There are many people though who have been cruelly hurt by churches who
have taught things such as if you pray for healing and are not healed it is
because of sin in your life, or if you suffer lack in any area of your life
that it is the result of your sin. It
has been said that, “The church is the only army that shoots its wounded.”
2.8.1.
Just as was the case with the disciples on this day,
what we Christians should be doing instead of standing around judging and being
philosophical about people’s suffering and difficulties is reaching out a
helping hand to all who are hurting, just as Jesus did!
2.9.
Some suffering and misfortune occurs to God’s people
for no known reason, other than God allows it.
Also, suffering does a good work in the Christian. There are scriptures that expound upon the
fact that God sometimes allows His people to suffer, including:
2.9.1.
1 Peter 4:13-14, “13 but to the degree
that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the
revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation. 14 If you
are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of
glory and of God rests on you.”
2.9.2.
1 Peter 5:10, “10 After you have
suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal
glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish
you.”
2.9.3.
After Paul had asked the Lord three times for healing
and the Lord would not heal Him, he writes in 2 Corinthians 12:9, “9 And
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for
power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather
boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.”
2.10.
Being the sinners that we are, we don’t deserve that
God should do anything good for us. When
we have had to go through very difficult and trying circumstances, what we as
Christians ought to ask ourselves is not why have these bad things happened to
me, but rather why do I deserve any of the good things that the Lord has
blessed me with in my life?
2.11.
Suffering makes us realize how we take God’s blessings
for granted many times in our lives.
Sometimes when I have recovered after being ill for a long time I
suddenly realize what a blessing it is just to feel good or be without pain,
yet I take this blessing for granted along with many others.
3.
VS
9:3-4 - “Jesus answered, ‘It was
neither that this man sinned, nor his parents;
but it was in order that the works of God might be displayed in
him. We must work the works of Him who
sent Me, as long as it is day, night is coming, when no man can work.”
- Jesus tells His disciples that this
man’s blindness did not come as a result of his sinning or his parent’s sinning
3.1.
Jesus says that it was neither this man’s sin nor his parents’
sin which caused him to be born blind.
Suffering of any kind is not necessarily the result of the sin of the
sufferer. This is a very cruel thought
to think in the first place, and many people have been hurt by groups who have
taught this doctrine.
3.2.
G.
3.3.
In any case the works of God are displayed in the lives
of many of those who suffer greatly, and great works of God often come from
lives that experience great amounts of suffering. I can think of many examples where it has
happened in people’s lives that they suffered greatly and that God blessed them
greatly and used them as his witnesses and prophets in a mighty way.
3.4.
Jesus also says here that there is a time for working,
and that while He is with them, it is a time for working. There will come a time when Jesus will ascend
up to the Father, but for now they must work.
3.5.
The scripture
says in the book of Ecclessiastes, “there is a time for everything.” We Christians need to be found making the
best use of the times that the Lord has given us. We need to know His timing, and do the work
as He leads us to do it!
3.6.
If we suffer as Christians, we must allow the Lord to
be glorified in our lives through and in spite of the suffering He has allowed
in our lives. God causes all things to
work together for good, as Rom. 8:28 says.
So, He has a good purpose for everything we are called to suffer
through.
4.
VS
9:5-6 - “‘While I am in the world, I am the light of the world’. When He had said this, He spat on the ground,
and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes, and said to
him, ‘Go wash in the pool of Siloam’ (which is translated Sent). And so he went away and washed, and came back seeing.” - Jesus reminds everyone that He is the light
of the world while He is here in the world, and then He heals the blind man’s
eyesight
4.1.
Jesus repeats what He had said in the previous
chapter, saying that He is “the light of the world.” With this chapter following chapter 9 in this
way, the Holy Spirit I believe is presenting a contrast for us. In chapter 9, Jesus was the light whom the
Pharisees rejected, and here He is the light that shines upon a poor suffering
and helpless sinner. Jesus reveals that
He is the “light of the world” by making a man who was born blind to
see.
4.2.
Jesus reveals His works in so many ways, as this and
each of the gospels portray.
4.3.
This is the seventh of eight attesting signs which
Jesus performs in the book of John. Each
of these is called an “attesting sign” in the gospels because these
works attest to who Jesus is in reality.
They verify the words which He spoke, as He did the things which no man
has ever done, and which only God could perform.
4.4.
Arthur Pink writes, “The late Bishop Ryle called
attention to the significant fact that the Gospels record more cases of
blindness healed than that of any other one affliction. There was one deaf and dumb healed, one sick
of the palsy, one sick of fever, two instances of lepers being healed, three
dead raised, but five of the bind! How
this emphasizes the fact that man is in the dark spiritually.”
4.5.
All of Jesus’ healings are illustrations of how the
Lord performs spiritual healing in our lives also and in this incident we
Christians can a few concepts illustrated:
4.5.1.
Just as this man was born blind, each person was born
in sin and members of a fallen race in need of healing from a Savior, as so
many scriptures infer, including:
4.5.1.1.Psalm 51:5,
“5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother
conceived me.”
4.5.1.2.Ephesians
2:3, “3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh,
indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children
of wrath, even as the rest.”
4.5.2.
Interestingly, Jesus used a different method to heal
each blind person that He healed.
Perhaps this shows that there are many ways in which the Lord provides
restoration from our sins. For Jesus to
place a spittle of clay over the eves of one who was born blind, could only
cause his eyes to be blocked further of sight.
By spitting in the mud and
making this clay spittle and then placing it over the man’s eye, this intimates
that sin does in fact blind our eyes and that spiritual healing and restoration
only occur when the Lord brings it in the very unusual way of the preaching of
the gospel that brings us to personal salvation. The healing of restoration of spiritual sight
that occurs at the time of salvation is a much greater miracle than even the
healing of physical sight.
4.6.
Much speculation has occurred trying theorize the
significance of Jesus using spittle and/or washing in the Pool of Siloam to
heal the sight of the man born blind but one thing we are sure of and that is
that the spittle and the washing reveals that only God could have performed
this work of miraculous healing. There
is no cure for blindness even in our day, and this case is the worst kind,
a blindness where a person has never
seen in his life. Doctors can in many
instances bring healing where there has been sight, however where there has never
been sight, there is nothing they can do.
4.7.
The fact that the name of the Pool of Siloam is
revealed to be, “Sent,” seems to indicate further that this miracle was
sent from God. The Pool of Siloam was a
spring that sometimes bubbled up water, but not at other times.
4.8.
The blind man simply obeyed the command of Jesus, and
went and washed in the Pool of Siloam.
As a result of his simple faith and obedience to Jesus’ word, he is
healed and comes back seeing. What an
example of faith this man ought to be to us.
4.9.
All of us ought to be lights in this world, doing good
deeds for men as Jesus did. If our
master went around and healed everyone whom He came into contact with, should
we not reach out to those who suffer and are not as fortunate as we are?
5.
VS 9:8-9 - “The
neighbors therefore, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying,
‘Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?’
Others were saying, ‘This is he’, still others were saying, ‘No, but he
looks like him’. He kept saying, ‘I am
the one’.” - The healed
man’s neighbors testify to his healing while others are skeptical that this the
man who had been born blind who is now healed
5.1.
There had come over this beggar such a complete
change, that many of the people doubted whether or not it was really the
man. However, in order to dispel any
doubt, the man stands up for himself and declares that he is the beggar who was
born blind.
5.2.
This change wrought in this healed man’s life is
directly parallel to the change that occurs in the life of a person who is made
a new creation through Christ when He receives personal salvation: 2 Corinthians 5:17, “17 Therefore
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed
away; behold, all things have become new.”
6.
VS 9:10-12 - “Therefore
they were saying to him, ‘How then were your eyes opened?’ He answered, ‘The man who is called Jesus
made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam, and wash’; so I went and washed, and I received
sight’. And they said to him, ‘Where is
He?’ He said, ‘I do not know’.” - People question the healed man as to what had
happened and how it came to be that He was healed of his blindness
6.1.
The pool of Siloam was right adjacent to the
6.2.
The multitude was now curious as to what happened to
this beggar born blind, and as to how he has come to be seeing. He tells them the story of Jesus anointing
his eyes, and telling him to wash in the Pool of Siloam. However, Jesus has left just after performing
this work, so the man does not know where Jesus has gone to.
7.
VS 9:13-14 - “They
brought to the Pharisees him who was formerly blind. Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus
made the clay, and opened his eyes.” -
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been healed by Jesus of
his blindness
7.1.
The motive of the multitude that brought the man
healed of blindness from birth isn’t stated.
7.2.
Some have thought that the multitudes’ behavior might
have initially been good in doing this, and that they might have brought the
man to the Pharisees in order to verify that a legitimate miracle had occurred.
7.3.
However, most would speculate that the fact that Jesus
broke the Sabbath laws of the Pharisees on this day seems to be the
motivation. Making clay was considered
an infraction of the Sabbath, and now the multitude may be sure that Jesus has
committed a sin.
8.
VS 9:15 - “Again,
therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received his sight. And he said to them, ‘He applied clay to my
eyes, and I washed, and I see’.” - The
Pharisees question the man as to how he had received his sight and the man
tells them what happened
8.1.
The healed man is very honest and straight forward and
simply tells these Pharisees how it came about that Jesus opened his eyes and
he came to see.
8.2.
An effective evangelist simply points people to Jesus
as this healed man was doing on this day.
8.3.
Note here that the genuineness of this man’s account
of Jesus’ healing is seen in that he as blind man only relates what he could
have known had happened, and nothing more.
He doesn’t even state that Jesus used spittle to make the clay, and did
so perhaps because he had not been able to see that happen.
9.
VS 9:16 - “Therefore
some of the Pharisees were saying, ‘This man is not from God, because He does
not keep the Sabbath’. But others were
saying, ‘How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?’ And there was a division among them.” - The Pharisees were arguing among themselves
how it could be that Jesus could be considered of God because He performed this
miracle on the Sabbath, yet wonder how a man that is a sinner could perform
such signs as Jesus performed?
9.1.
We see that the Pharisees were not set in their
opinion of Jesus, and that some of them were asking some good questions that
should have provoked their reason to accept that Jesus must be sent and blessed
of God to do these works.
9.2.
Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea were Pharisees who
believed in Jesus during this time and they may have been voicing the fact that
a man who was a sinner could not have performed this healing, only One who is
divine (Jesus was performing greater miraculous works than any man has or ever
will perform).
10.
VS
9:17 - “They said therefore to the blind man again, ‘What do you say about
Him, since He opened your eyes?’ And he
said, ‘He is a prophet’.” - The
Pharisees question the healed man who was born blind asking Him what He thought
about the man who opened his eyes
10.1.
As the man considers the reality of what has happened
to him since being healed, Jesus is growing in his estimation. The man doesn’t recognize that Jesus is the
Son of God yet, however he does realize that Jesus must be ‘a prophet’
in order to do what He has done in this work.
10.2.
A prophet was considered to be above the law in regard
to the keeping of the Sabbath. David was
an example of this! Because his men were
hungry, David broke the letter of the Sabbath by allowing them to go and pick
grain so that they could eat.
10.3.
We who call ourselves Christians ought to be bold as
this man who was healed and then shared Jesus with the Pharisees in such a bold
manner. Have we not been healed of a
great ailment by Jesus in our lives? We
ought to also depend on and pray to the Holy Spirit to give us the words He
wants us to say when we are persecuted (or have an opportunity to witness about
our faith), after all that is His promise to us.
11.
VS
9:18-23 - “The Jews therefore did not believe it of
him, that he had been blind, and had received sight, until they called the
parents of the very one who had received his sight, and questioned them,
saying, ‘Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?’ His parents answered them and said, ‘We know
that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him;
he is of age, he shall speak for himself’. His parents said this because they were
afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had
already agreed, that if anyone should confess Him to be the Christ, he should
be put out of the synagogue. For this
reason his parents said, ‘He is of age;
ask him’.” - The
Pharisees did not believe that this man claiming a healing of his sight whom
they are interrogating had actually been born blind, until they asked his
parents about him
11.1.
The parents of the man who was healed convince the
Pharisees that the man was their son, and that he was born blind. The parents are fearful of being
excommunicated (‘put out of the synagogue’) from the synagogue however
since they had heard that who ever confessed Jesus that he would be
excommunicated, so they answer the Pharisees very carefully telling them only
that this is their son, however that they would have to obtain from their son
how it was that he had come to be healed.
11.2.
To be excommunicated from the synagogue took two
forms. The lighter form of
excommunication meant that a person was not allowed to come into the temple to
worship for a period of approx. a month or so.
However, the more severe type of excommunication meant that a person was
completely cut off from the religious and social life of the society. One could not even buy or sell any goods if
he were excommunicated in this fashion.
This more severe form of excommunication is evidently what was
threatened by the Pharisees for anyone who testified of believing in
Jesus. So, out of fear, the man’s
parents refuse to answer to the Pharisees as to how their son was made to
see.
11.3.
By declaring that the man was their son and that he
was born blind, these parents have confirmed everything necessary to the
Pharisees so that they should be forced to assent that a truly great miracle
has been performed by Jesus.
12.
VS
9:24 - “So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to
him, ‘Give glory to God; we know that
this man is a sinner’.” - The
Pharisees again call the man who had been healed and they tell him to give
glory to God because Jesus is a sinner
12.1.
The Pharisees again call the man in so that they might
be able to find some discrepancy in his story and thus discredit the man or
Jesus in some way. They falsely affirm
that they know that Jesus is ‘a sinner’ (deceiving the man into
believing that they had now obtained some evidence to this fact) and they try
to discredit Jesus by pressuring the man to give glory to God for his
healing.
12.2.
However, as Jesus said, the Father has chosen that the
Son be glorified, and this is God’s will.
So, no efforts of man will cause Jesus to not receive the glory He is
due one day.
13.
VS
9:25 - “He therefore answered, ‘Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that, whereas I was
blind, now I see’.” - The man
tells the Pharisees that he does not know whether or not Jesus is a sinner, but
one thing he does know is that whereas he was blind that now he sees
13.1.
The boldness of the man who was healed is growing and
growing.
13.2.
The tells the Pharisees something which should have
provoked their attention and thought. He
tells them that though he doesn’t know whether or not Jesus is a sinner,
however of one thing he is sure and that is that Jesus has completely healed
him.
14.
VS
9:26-29 - “They said therefore to him, ‘What did He
do to you? How did He open your
eyes?’ He answered them, ‘I told you
already, and you did not listen; why do
you want to hear it again? You do not
want to become His disciples too, do you?’
And they reviled him, and said, ‘You are His disciple, but we are
disciples of Moses. We know that God has
spoken to Moses; but as for this man, we
do not know where He is from’.” - The
Pharisees again ask the man how it came about that Jesus healed him, and he
tells the man that he has already told them but that they did not listen to him
14.1.
The healed man now realizes that the Pharisees are not
interested at all in obtaining the truth.
They have already made up their mind about Jesus, they are just trying
to find something with which to discredit his story or persecute Jesus. Note that the Pharisees keeping asking the
man ‘how’ not “who” in relation to his healing, for they do not
even want to consider that Jesus has performed a miraculous healing on the man.
14.2.
The healed man tells the Pharisees that he has already
told them about Jesus, but they were not willing to listen. Now with sarcasm the man asks these Pharisees
if they are asking because they want to be Jesus’ disciples also, as he was one
of Jesus’ disciples.
14.3.
The Pharisees revile the man in anger for saying this
to them and say that they are disciples of Moses, since they know for certainty
that God spoke to Moses. They think that
holding onto a former revelation of God will protect them and keep them in
righteousness, even though they are presently persecuting the only begotten Son
which the Father has sent and refusing to hear or receive the truth concerning
who Jesus is.
14.4.
The Pharisees also make a statement that contradicts
something they previously had said about Jesus.
They previously had said that they were rejecting Jesus because they
knew his family and from where He was from while the Messiah would come out of
nowhere, however in verse 29 they claim that they ‘do not know where He is
from.’
15.
VS
9:30-33 - “The man answered and said to them,
‘Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet
He opened my eyes. We know that God does
not hear sinners; but if anyone is
God-fearing, and does His will, He hears him.
Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened
they eyes of a person born blind. If
this man were not from God, He could do nothing’.” - The man tells the Pharisees that it is
amazing that the Pharisees would not know where Jesus was from and yet Jesus
had opened his eyes, and that we know that God does not hear sinners
15.1.
The healed man has grown to a fever pitch of boldness,
as he also shows the depth of his sound reasoning power.
15.1.1.First of all, the man marvels that such
an unbelievably great miracle has been performed by a man that these religious
leaders do not know about.
15.1.2.Then, with acute reasoning powers he makes
the conclusion that Jesus must be from God because God does not hear sinners,
and yet He hears those who do the Father’s will, and this miracle is greater in
its power than any other miracle performed by God’s prophets who lived
previously.
15.1.2.1.To heal a
person who was born blind and who had never been born blind, is something that
no doctor of our day could do. It is
something that only God could have done through Jesus!
15.1.3.The man reasons that if Jesus were not
from God, He could do no attesting signs at all.
16.
VS
9:34 - “They answered and said to him, ‘You were born entirely in sins, and
are you teaching us?’ And they put him
out.” - The
Pharisees chide the healed man for trying to teach them and tell him that he
was born entirely in sins, and then they put him out of the synagogue
16.1.
The Pharisees were now filled with hateful murderous
rage, and they revile the man healed, telling him that he was born entirely in
sins. In other words, they say that his
being born blind was the result of the worst of sinful acts which this man or
his parents must have committed.
16.2.
Then, the Pharisees excommunicate the man from the
synagogue, they ‘put him out.’
This was surely the permanent ban from all of the social and religious
life of the community.
17.
CONCLUSIONS:
17.1.
Never
judge a person because of their calamity, only God truly knows why bad things
happen in someone’s life. Don’t
philosophize about people’s calamity rather reach out a hand to help them as
Jesus did with this man.
17.2.
What a
wonderful miracle happened on this day as our Lord revealed that He is the
light of the world by bringing the light of seeing to this man born blind.
17.3.
We are
called to be witnesses of what Jesus has done in our life, just as this healed
blind man was called. We admire his
boldness but we need to pray for more boldness for ourselves as well.
17.4.
Our
calling as witnesses simply involves telling others what we know about
Jesus. We don’t have to know every
answer nor every scripture or truth, and as long as we stick with the things that
we do know, and the things that Jesus has done in our life we shall be
successful witnesses for Him.