Author: Deji Okegbile

The Gospel reading today from the ninth chapter of of John takes only two verses for the miracle and thirty-nine for the reaction (Jn 9:1-41).  The two verses miracle is the healing of the blind man and the thirty nine verses is about how the religious leaders could not refute the reasoning and spirituality of the blind man so they threw him out of the temple (Jn 9:34). The Gospel reading also points us to the G5 – Group of Blind World, each represents us in some ways. The man born blind from birth, born with a sin nature,...

In today’s Gospel reading Jesus encounters the Samaritan woman at the Jacob’s well. In the Old Testament, wells are meeting places, especially a secret meeting of lovers. Abraham’s servant found a wife for Isaac by a well; Jacob met his wife, Rachel, by a well. From a treatise on John, ‘A Samaritan Woman Came to Draw Water,’ by Saint Augustine, the Samaritan stands for the Church, the Bride of Jesus, ‘she is a symbol of the Church not yet made righteous. Righteousness follows from the conversation. She came in ignorance, she found Christ, and he enters into conversation with her.’...