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In Acts 13, Paul the Apostle and Barnabas travel to the city of Paphos in Cyprus, where the Roman Proconsul, Sergius Paulus, wishes to hear them speak about Jesus.Elymas, described as a false prophet and a sorcerer, opposes them, whereupon Paul (who is here referred to for the first time by his Roman name) announces that God intends to make Elymas temporarily blind.
The blind men seem to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, who according to Isaiah 35:5; 61:1 is given the ability to heal the blind and cure diseases. Because the Messiah had been promised to be the Son of David. Various commentators have noted that although the eyes of the blind men were closed their minds were "sharp-sighted." [1] [2]
The theme of blindness has been explored by many different cultures throughout history, with blind characters appearing in stories from ancient Greek mythology and Judeo-Christian religious texts. In the modern era, blindness has featured in numerous works of literature and poetry by authors such as William Shakespeare , William Blake , and H ...
Jesus healing blind Bartimaeus, by Johann Heinrich Stöver, 1861. Each of the three Synoptic Gospels tells of Jesus healing the blind near Jericho, as he passed through that town, shortly before his passion. The Gospel of Mark tells of the curing of a man named Bartimaeus, healed by Jesus as he is leaving Jericho.
John 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It maintains the previous chapter's theme "Jesus is light", [1] recording the healing of an unnamed man who had been blind from birth, a miracle performed by Jesus, and their subsequent dealings with the Pharisees. [2]
The story is sometimes thought of as a loose adaptation of one in the Gospel of Mark, of the healing of a blind man called Bartimaeus, but in fact is a different story, The healing of Bartimaeus takes place near Jericho, involves two men who call out from the roadside as Jesus passes by, and comes later in Matthew 20:29-34. In Matthew 9, the ...
Celidonius is the traditional name ascribed to the man born blind whom Jesus healed in the Gospel of John 9:1–38. This tradition is attested in both Eastern Christianity and in Catholicism . One tradition ascribes to St. Celidonius the founding of the Christian church at Nîmes in Gaul (present-day France).
Apollo was said to have given the gift of prophecy to Phineus, [24] but the latter's own blinding was variously attributed to the outrage against his sons, [25] his giving Phrixus directions on his journey, [26] or because he preferred long life to sight, [27] or, as reported in the Argonautica (thus the best-known version), for revealing the future to mankind. [28]