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See the note on vs 36 for comments on “The Jews.” If this is true, the same group of people who doubted the healing of the blind man in John 10 and threw him out, talk out of the other side of their mouths now. This isn’t meant to endorse either thing, it’s meant to create even more doubt about who Jesus is. In effect they’re saying “so you fools believe this guy healed a blind man he didn’t even know, but couldn’t or wouldn’t come heal this man Lazarus whom he’s crying over??? How idiotic is that? The blind man is still blind and Jesus didn’t do anything for Lazarus because he couldn’t. Wake up and smell the fraud.”
There are people who like to stand at the edge of God events and tweak things. Did God really say? Aren’t you the son of God? Could he have healed? They are cowards who have no stomach for a direct encounter with Jesus or the people who love Jesus. If you pressed them they’re the ones who fall back and say things like “I was only asking a question.” The thing to do with them is to turn their questions back on them. Did Jesus heal the blind man? Do you believe Jesus could have healed Lazarus? Why are you here asking questions? Do you want to be saved also?
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