Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I desire this evening to continue the series that we've had for
some 14 or so weeks on the questions asked in Scripture. And this
evening, speaking from the text in our reading, Matthew chapter
22, and reading from our text, verse 42. Our Lord's question to the Pharisees
that were gathered together. Jesus asked them saying, what
think ye of Christ, whose son is he? They say unto him, the
son of David. So the question, what think ye
of Christ, whose son is he? the Pharisees and the scribes
and the lawyers or those expert in the law had been asking questions
of our Lord, deliberately trying to trip Him up, trying to bring
those things that they thought He could not answer, those things
that they thought would further their own belief as the Sadducees
that there could not be, a resurrection or to prep up our Lord and bring
the doctrines of our Lord in opposition to the laws of man
as to whether taxes should be paid to Caesar or not. And the Lord so wonderfully answered
those questions. And it is on that backdrop with
those that were really, well in some cases, flattering the
Lord before they were then seeking to trip Him up, those who had
very little knowledge really of who they were speaking to,
how small views they had of Jesus as the eternal God, Emmanuel
God with us, incarnate God that filled heaven and the earth,
the way that men spoke of him, said that he by the prince of
devils casted out devils and those who treated him with such
contempt. But the Lord then asked them
a question and in one sense it's amazing that those that were
so learned or supposedly learned in the scriptures that they could
not answer this question. They'd had the Psalms of David
with them for a thousand years, and yet they never ever puzzled
over and thought of that question that David sets forth in Psalm
110. Our Lord saying and quoting him,
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I
make thine enemies thy footstool. They had answered him what they
thought of Christ, that he was the son of David. So our Lord
then tries their answer and puts them to the test from the scriptures
that they had. How then doth David in spirit
call him Lord? And so the question that is before
us this evening, I have felt on, there's two sides to it really,
there's two questions here. What think ye of Christ, whose
son is he? Obviously our Lord, what he's
asking them, what think ye of Christ, is centering on his sonship. And I want to think of that first,
thinking Biblically, what do we think of Christ biblically
and especially of the Sonship of Christ? Thinking biblically
of the Sonship of Christ. But then secondly, what think
we personally of Christ? And I think we'll find, as I
have found in Meditating upon this word is a very searching
word. There are many things that we
might think of Christ that is based upon the word of God, but
if that was turned around and said, no, you personally, by
your experience, what do you think of Christ? That is a very
searching question. And I want to look at that in
the second place. But firstly, biblically. This
very question, the Sonship of Christ, through the history of
the Church, and especially in our connection with our denomination,
has caused divisions and historical separations over the years. In the 1850s, when the Gospel
Standard was formed, it was because of the controversy where some
said that Jesus was only a son by his birth into this world. He was not the eternal son of
God. And this is the very center of
the question that is asked here, pointing to Psalm 110. But it was through that, through
two magazines, the Gospel Standard magazine, which contended for
the eternal sonship of Christ, through J.C. Philpott when he
edited it, and from that comes his booklet, The Eternal Sonship
of Our Lord, and then the other magazine, The Urban Vessel, that
contended for The Other View, and that then brought about the
churches that had gathered together on the Gospel Standard List,
those that held to The Eternal Sonship View, and those that
did not. were excluded from that. And
so, historically, that is an issue that has formed, had a
big part in forming our denomination. Recent years, there is the controversy
that keeps coming on as to our Lord Jesus Christ, that he was
not a real man, people say, and that he did not have a soul,
the soul's position was taken by his divinity, and that actually
his body wasn't a real body like we have, flesh and blood, but
it was a spiritual body, a different entity altogether. And this controversy
still divides and still there are those in our connections
that hold to that. It's not surprising that it is
a very central, central doctrine. We think of John when he writes
to the epistles, he said, if any man bring you not this doctrine,
the doctrine of Christ, who does not confess that Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh, that we are not to bid him Godspeed or
have him into our houses. It is such an important doctrine,
the view that we have of our Lord Jesus Christ. And you can
think of nearly every cult or every false religion that the
errors will be concerning our Lord. The Jehovah's Witnesses
laugh at the idea of the Trinity. They feel it is foolish. And how could it be? There could
be three persons in one Godhead, one God, but three distinct persons. and they relegate our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ to a created being and not one with the Father
and the Holy Ghost. And so this question is a very,
very important question. What think ye of Christ? Whose
Son is He? Or, in this point, thinking biblically
of the Sonship of Christ. Well, firstly here, the answer
that they gave was a correct answer, that he was the son of
David. And the two of the Gospels, Matthew
and Luke, that give the lineage to our Lord, those show so very
clearly, the very first chapter in Matthew, gives the beautiful
pattern of 14 generations, 14 generations from Abraham to David,
from David to the carrying away into Babylon, and from the carrying
away into Babylon under Christ, 14 generations. And we see the
line that is going right through David, and this is the kingship
line The line is not a bloodline, but it's a pointing to our Lord
as the King. And that goes through Solomon,
the son of David. If we were then to turn to the
account in Luke, and then we see in chapter three of Luke,
the bloodline, which goes back from our Lord and through the line right through to Mary,
or from Mary right through to Adam and the Son of God. And we see that that also goes
through David, through David's son, Nathan. And so in both Mary
and Joseph, Our Lord truly was the Son of David, and that which
was expected of them, that which was prophesied, our Lord truly
came in that line. And this is clearly set forth
in the inspired Word of God, that the promised seed, the promised
Son of David did come, and that Jesus of Nazareth was that subtle? And so this answer was a correct
answer, a right answer, and yet our Lord's further questioning
of them shook them really, they could not work it out. As a reminder
to us, we might know certain truths, we might be able to clearly
state certain truths, But someone may come and set before us some
other scriptures that may shake us in our mind. And we may think,
well, have we got the first one right? We're not told here what
they were thinking. They could not answer him a word,
but we're not told what we're thinking. But obviously, it shook
what their answer was. And it is a reminder to us, just
because we haven't got an answer to someone who may bring something
that challenges another one of our beliefs, doesn't mean to
say it's wrong. What our Lord spoke here really
led to the second truth, that not only was He the Son of David,
but He was also the Son of God, the eternal Son of God. And so later on, when the Jews
accused the Lord, when our Lord said that before Abraham was,
I am, and they said, but they are not yet 50 years of age. Aren't they older than Abraham? And our Lord was very clear that
before Abraham was, I am. Abraham saw my day and rejoiced. at it. And we have the eternal
sonship. By Him were all things made. Nothing was made that was made,
yet was not made by Him. When man was formed, let us make
man in our own image. And we have our Lord, the beautiful
chapters in Proverbs, personified with wisdom that's By the Lord,
when He made the earth and formed the earth, there was I, there
was the Lord, there was the Son of God. And we have, of course,
the beautiful pre-incarnation appearances of our Lord. The
three men that met with Abraham in Genesis 18. And later we have
the Lord remaining, speaking with Abraham as Abraham makes
intercession for Lot. And two angels go on their way
to Sodom, but the third was the Lord. One of the pre-incarnation
appearances in the form of a man to Abraham, the same as it was
with Jacob. They wrestled the man with him
to the breaking of the day. Jacob's name was changed from
Jacob to Israel. because thou hast wrestled with
God and with man, and hast prevailed, God and man in one person. We have the same when the angel
appeared to Manoah and his wife. Manoah said, we have seen God,
and therefore we shall die. But his wife said that if we
were to die, then why would we have been told such things at
this time? Why would he have shown us these
things? But, again, it was one of those
times of the Son of Man, the Eternal Son, the Second Person
in the Trinity, showing Himself in that form on Earth, and asked
His name. He wouldn't give it, wouldn't
give it to Noah and his wife. Gideon was another one, wouldn't
give his name to Him. But then in Matthew, of course,
we have in that first chapter, the beautiful His name, thou
shalt call His name, Jesus. And Paul in his letter to the
Philippians, a name which is above every name, that at the
name of Jesus, every knee should bow. But those appearances beforehand,
we could number a lot more with the appearance of our Lord to
Joshua, as they went into the promised land. Paul tells us they drank of that
spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ,
right the way through the wilderness. He was with the church there
in the wilderness. And so when our Lord says to
the Pharisees here, and brings before them Psalm 110, and asks
them, How then, if if Christ is to be the Son of David, how
then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said
unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine
enemies thy footstool. If David then call him Lord,
How is he his son? What a blessed realization. And David would have known this
in the beautiful Psalms and prophecies. David would have known, just
the same as Job, that his Redeemer lived and that he would stand
at the latter day upon the earth. in the descriptions in the Word
of God of our Lord Jesus Christ. We must always remember, great
is the mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh. It is a mystery. It can only
really be explained by the words of Scripture itself. And like perhaps looking at a
diamond from different aspects, different angles, or anything
else, a house or something like that, you're looking at the same
building, but when you look at it one side, it looks one way,
and you look at another side, you look at a plan view, and
it looks different again, but it's all the same house, and
it all fits together, and it all is together, and so you have
that with the descriptions, of our Lord. He is the Son of David. He is also the Son of God. He is also the Son of the Father. We think of how the Gospel according
to Mark begins. The very first verse, the beginning
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ The Son of God. The Son of God. And this is also
affirmed, set forth in Paul's epistle to the Romans, in the
first chapter of Romans. Then we have in the third verse
in that chapter, concerning his son, I'll read from verse 1. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,
called to be an apostle separated unto the gospel of God, which
he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures
concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the
seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the
Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness by
the resurrection from the dead. And he brings together the son
of David, a seed of David according to the flesh, the seed of the
woman that should bruise the serpent's head, but declared
to be the son of God with power. The temptations that our Lord
endured in the wilderness after His baptism, the first ones were
from Satan, if thou be the Son of God. And He sought in that
way to trip him up, to make him do things, really as a servant
to Satan, that our Lord did not need to prove His sonship in
that way. Satan knew full well that he
was indeed the Son of God. We have also, in John's epistles,
that He is the Son of the Father. Now, Lord, in the Gospel according
to John, chapter 10, spoke very much of His Father and Him being
one. And then again, His Father greater
than I. But in the epistle of John, to
John, chapter 1, There's only one chapter in that, but in that
chapter, then we have verse 3, Grace be with you, mercy and
peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the
Son of the Father, in truth and love. And so we're appointed
to the Son of David, and the Son of God, and the Son of the
Father. And in the Gospels, in the New
Testament, there's 43 times that we read that phrase, Son of God,
in relation to our Lord Jesus Christ. Then we have this Son of Man. The Lord used that term of himself
and really much more times, 85 times, many more times than the
description of the Son of God. We spoke in December of the question
that related to that in Matthew chapter 16. And in verse 15, I think it was
our question, our Lord asked them, but he saith unto them,
but whom say ye that I am? Simon Peter answered and said,
Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. But the Lord
had asked them, in verse 13, whom do men say that I, the Son
of man, An, the Son of Man. And it is very important, as
we said, one of the errors that's being held at this present time,
that the true manhood of Christ is maintained. That He was really
and truly made flesh and dwelt among us. He took on Him, not the nature
of angels, which is only spirit, nor that of beasts, which is
only flesh, but of the seed of Abraham, which is flesh and blood
and spirit. Both the soul and the body are
redeemed. At death, the people of God,
their souls return unto God that gave Him, Their soul is redeemed,
but also their bodies are redeemed, and at the resurrection they
shall be raised incorruptible and joined again together. Paul
says in Romans 8 that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth
in pain until now. Not only they, but also those
of us that have the first roots of the Spirit, we groan, waiting
for the redemption of the body, waiting for their time. But not
only the soul, but the body is restored again incorruptible. There is a terrestrial body,
there is a celestial body. This mortality must put on immortality. And the apostle goes into it
very clearly in 1 Corinthians chapter 15. And so it's vital
that our Lord should take on him the nature of those that
he was to redeem. Some years ago, in giving Bibles
to the local school, one of the children asked a question. I
used to encourage them very much to ask questions. I asked a lot
of them. This young girl asked a question,
The class found it quite amusing really, but it gave me an opening
to set forth why our Lord had to be a real man. And she said,
did it matter how our Lord, how Jesus came into this world? What if he came as an octopus? Did he have to be a man? And
of course, an octopus, a fish, not of those that had sinned,
not of those that was to be redeemed, only flesh, no soul, same with
all of the animal kingdom. And He gave that opportunity
to set forth what man is, that we are body and song, and has
set forth in Ecclesiastes, who knoweth the spirit of the beast
that goes downward into the earth, and the spirit of man that goeth
upward. And our Lord must be made partaker
of both the same. Great is the mystery of godliness,
God manifest in the flesh. That holy thing that shall be
born of thee shall be called the Son of God. The Holy Ghost
should overshadow Mary, and so the sinners, sinnership of Mary
or the line there was not to be followed into our Lord, He
was to be the Son of God with power from heaven. And yet He
was to be truly man. Truly man. And we must hold fast
to that. The very glorified flesh and
bones of our Lord that hung upon the cross are now glorified in
heaven. They're nowhere else. Elijah
taken up bodily into heaven, his body was not found on earth.
He was taken up into heaven the same as those that shall remain
and be alive when the Lord comes again. We shall be changed, says
the Apostle. And all these things, they are
mysterious things, but we believe them as the Scriptures reveal
them. And the Jews were in no doubt. They put the question
the other way around. They accused the Lord that of
being a man, that he made himself God. In their eyes, he was very
clearly a man. But the truth would have been
that he is God that made himself God. They could really, through His
miracles, our Lord testify, the miracles they testify of me. We must hold fast to the true
humanity of our Lord. He is a near kinsman. He did partake of the flesh and
blood of those that He was to redeem. It truly was that blood
that was shed at Calvary of the God-Man. One person, two natures. One eternal Son of God, two natures. Man and God in one person. Then we have the Son of Joseph. The Jews, they viewed our Lord
and often it was a real stumbling block to them. Is not this Jesus,
the son of Joseph, the carpenter's son? And they stumbled at him,
they were offended at him. When our Lord was 12 years of
age and his parents had brought him up to Jerusalem to worship,
when they returned they'd gone three days and didn't realise
that the child Jesus was still remaining and not with them.
And they went back then seeking him, and after three days they
found him in the temple, asking questions and being questioned
by the lawyers. And his mother said to him, why
hast thou dealt with us thus? Thy father and I have sought
thee sorrowing. And he said to them, how is it
that you sought me? Wished you not that I must be
about my father's business? Very clearly telling her, Joseph
is not my father. My father is in heaven. Yes,
then he went back and was subject to them as far as He might say,
in decency, as far as the law of the land, as far as the eyes
of those that were round about him, Joseph was his father. As far as the line in Matthew
1, it led straight to Joseph, the son of Joseph. But in that line, In Luke, we
have, as was supposed, the Son of Joseph. And the inspired Word
of God is very clear in this, that He is the Son of God. And all these aspects, these
different ways of looking at our Lord and viewing Him in a
scriptural way, our Lord asking this question, what think ye
of Christ? Whose Son is He? In one way,
as we believe the Word of God, receive the Word of God as the
inspired Word of God, may what we think of Christ be what the
Scriptures tell us of Christ. We think of the way that the
First Official, General of John finishes, We know that the Son
of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we
may know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true, even
in His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal
life. May we truly have that scripture
and right view of our Lord. what think ye of Christ, whose
son is he? May we really be able to answer
that. But then secondly, what are the
questions asked of us? What do we personally think of
Christ? Not what we think we should think
of him. Sometimes when we ask questions,
we know what the right answer should be. But if we're honest
with our heart, we may not be able to give that answer. And so when we have it in this
way, what think ye of Christ? May we search our own hearts,
what do we really think of him. I want to mention a few things
based upon my own experience. I am what I think of him and
why. My mind went back first to Isaiah
53. In Isaiah 53 which beautifully
sets forth our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and his sufferings
But it begins in this way, who hath believed our report, and
to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him
as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground. He hath
no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there's no
beauty that we should desire him. despised and rejected of
men. And you know my mind went back
to the days of my unregeneracy, days when I used to sit in the
house of God, turn off from the services, no desire to listen,
never prayed myself personally, had no views of the Lord nor
my need of Him at all. I miss Isaiah 53, that is how
the Lord was to me then. What think ye of Christ in those
days? Nothing. Just as a root out of
dry ground. No form nor comeliness, no beauty
that we should desire him. I didn't desire him, didn't want
him, didn't seek him. And so I felt in this, when we ask
this question, what think ye of Christ? To put it in this
way, is it the same as how we thought years ago? Or has something changed? You know, when the Lord first
began with my heart and convicted me of actually swearing in my
workplace, the first reaction was, I changed that swearing
to, and you might find this strange, to taking the Lord's name in
vain, only for a short while, then the Lord turned it about
and really convicted me of what I was doing. Thou shalt not take
the name of the Lord thy God in vain. And it is always that
which now, and I hope it will always be so with a tender conscience,
that where the Lord's name is taken in vain, that will immediately
drop, immediately be that which recoils. It may be I can be tempted
to go into places or do things or hear things that are wrong
and could be led astray that way, but as soon as someone comes
in and they start to speak the name of the Lord in vain, then
immediately that registers. This is one who is no longer
meaningless, he is precious, and we read in Peter, and you
which believe, he is precious. And when the Lord is precious
to us, if someone touches them, if someone touches their name,
if someone speaks evil against them, then we'll immediately
react to them. If with our husband or our wife,
if someone was to be blackening their name or speaking against
them, then immediately, where there's that luck to them, we'd
rise up, we'd defend them. It would hurt us that their name
was being blackened or spoken against. And so though we may
perhaps find it hard to put into words, well, what think we of
Christ, Is His name precious and do we
feel sorrow when His name is taken in vain and despised and
hated and rejected? And has the Lord made a difference
in us so that we are not now what we once were? It must have
been like that with the Apostle Paul, it's all that he was. He
hated the name of Jesus. Those that called on his name,
he persecuted them. But then he became one that called
on that very same name. And the Lord made that change
and made that difference. The other thing I thought, and I hope it's so with some
of you here, what think ye of Christ? And the answer is, He
is my hope. He is my only hope. I see myself
so full of sin, so full of iniquity, so full of failures, but the
Lord is my hope. The hymn writer says, if ever
my poor soul be saved, tis Christ must be the way. And to have
that thought of Christ, I without Him, again the hymn
writer says, my perish must. Our Lord said there is only one
name given among men whereby we must be saved. And if you
believe not that I am He, ye shall perish in your sins. And
that He is able to save unto the uttermost all that come unto
God by Him. And there's that realization.
that outside of Christ we do not have hope. The apostle writing
to the Hebrews, he says, we are saved by hope, but hope that
is seen is not hope for what we see we don't hope for. Our Lord has entered into heaven,
we see him not with our natural eyes, but we are saved by hope, that we're raised up, and that
will be whenever we're overcome by sin, our hope will be in Him. You think of the psalmist, why
art thou cast down, O my soul? Why art thou disquieted within
me? Hope thou in God, for I shall
yet praise Him for the help of His countenance. And His hope
was in His God. When David had those at Ziglag
that were seeking to stone him, he encouraged himself in the
Lord his God. That was where his hope was,
his refuge was. What think ye of Christ? Can
we add in that? He is my hope, my only hope. My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness, I dare not trust the sweetest
rain, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. Another thought of Christ. He
is my Redeemer. Job, he was able in his great
affliction to say, I know my Redeemer liveth. I love the way
Psalm 25 finishes. Redeem Israel, O God, out of
all his troubles. And the only way that we can
get out of our troubles is by being redeemed out of them. And
when I think of my own regeneracy, it was the Lord that brought
me from death to life. It was Him that first turned
my feet from sin and evil that redemption, that setting
free from bondage, that loosing the chains of nature's darkness. And from every snare and every
trap that is laid by the devil or the world, it's the Lord that's
set free. And it's a precious truth to
realize and to know that. How many in the days of His flesh
did the Lord loose from their bonds, from their sicknesses,
from their wrong views, from their wrong teachings? What think you, Christ? Is He
your Redeemer? Is He mine? Do we view that if
our souls are to be set free and where our souls have been
set free, It is the Lord that does that. If the Son shall make
you free, you shall be free indeed. Words that the Lord preciously
dropped into my soul years ago. Another aspect is that of David. David says in Psalm 23, the Lord
is my shepherd, I shall not want. That's a beautiful psalm. And
there's so many aspects of the shepherd. He gives the sheep
their protection. He gives them their food. He
gives them their guidance. And you know, I can look back
on my life and those aspects of what a good shepherd does
for his sheep. The Lord has done that in my
life. And I'll instruct thee and teach
thee in the way which thou shalt go. I'll guide thee with mine
eye. When he putteth forth his sheep, he goeth before them,
the times I've seen the Lord go before me. And that's a beautiful
illustration. I remember walking under the
blessing of the Lord in the woods near here, and the words dropping
in at the end of that psalm, surely, goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the
house of the Lord forever. Those times don't abide with
us. They're not always with us. We
don't always feel them like that. And so sometimes we might wonder
whether we really did feel them or whether we really can lay
claim to those precious things. But may we hold fast and the
Holy Spirit bring to remembrance those times when scriptures like
that have been very precious because the Lord's brought them
in. And we've been under the influence and savour of the Holy
Spirit, and Christ has been precious. Remember what our Lord said of
the Spirit. He shall not speak of himself,
but that which he doth hear, he doth receive of mine, and
shall show it unto you. He is our guide. Those of you
who know me know how the Lord so. That's that hymn 960. where
shall I find a guide to direct, bright, skilful and kind, brave
to protect? And the last line of that, and
only be living to publish thy praise. And it is a blessed thing
to know something of what the children of Israel knew, all
their wilderness journey, the fiery, cloudy pillar that went
before them, and who showed them the way that they were to go.
And the more we realise that, that the Lord has shown us and
has directed us, the more there will be a comfort in reflecting
of that. What think ye of Christ? He is
my guide. He is the way. He says, I am
the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me. And when we realise that he's
shown us the way and he leads us in the way. Beautiful Psalm
107, isn't it? He led them forth by the right
way, that they might go into a city of habitation. Here's my wisdom. When I think
of what Christ is to me, what thinking of Christ, all the wisdom
that I need. The amount of times when I was
in design engineering, Praying to the Lord at my desk, and as
designing machines, how shall this machine work? What shape
shall it take? Will it be hydraulic, electric,
pneumatic? What way? And what shall be the
footprint of it? And even then, simple things
later on in life. Many times, asking of the Lord. And He gives that wisdom, and
especially in the things of God. If any man lack wisdom, let him
ask of God. And Christ is the wisdom of God. And then perhaps lastly, the
Lord is the forerunner going before us. Paul, he says, let
us run the races set before us looking unto Jesus. What think
ye of Christ? He is like that first He is the elder brother, he is
the one already with the Father. And he prays, I will that they
whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may
behold my glory. What think ye of Christ? I mean,
did we lose sight that he is already there? We lose sight
of that hope beyond the grave. We lose sight of what dear Stephen
did when he was dying, being stoned, was able to look up and
he saw the Lord standing at the right hand of God. Off the church of God is to have
their thoughts where the Lord is, and their desire like the
apostle Paul, and he was able to say, when Christ, who is our
life, shall appear, then shall we also appear with him. He had
a desire to depart and be with Christ, which was far better.
That whole desire of heaven is based on that the Lord is there. The Lord is there. What think
we of Christ? He is there. He is our heaven. He makes our heaven, and here
below, the sweet foretaste, He makes it so, to maybe go away
with some meditation on this and thought of our own experience
of what the Holy Spirit has shown us of Christ, what Christ is
to us, and to meditate upon this, how we should answer without
the second part directing us to his sonship or to a biblical
what we think of Christ, but what ye think of Christ, by what
we have partaken of Him and experienced of Him, of His grace and known
of Him, that we don't just have a religion of doctrine without
feeling and experience. or a religion of just saying
what we think we should say because it's in the catechism or because
it's in the Bible, but not able to come in with that man who
was born blind. One thing I know, or as I was
blind now I see, they asked him, what sayest thou of him that
opened thine eyes? He is a prophet. Later on the
Lord revealed himself to him as he really was. Or may we then be able to answer
this, what think ye of Christ? Amen.