Quick Summary:

At its core, the story is simple: a blind man has his eyes opened by Jesus. But in the events that follow his healing, the man finds his life and relationships utterly changed.

Witnessing to Jesus as the light of the world may be, as Jesus himself suggests, the very thing for which God has been preparing the man his whole life—but it comes with a price, and a warning about the resistance we can expect when our eyes are opened to God’s revelation in Jesus, and there’s no going back to the way things were.

4th century bishop St. Ambrose saw in this gospel story a metaphor of the Christian’s journey from font to table. He wrote: "You went, you washed, you came to the altar, you began to see what you had not seen before." Began to see...it's a process.