May We Always Be Teachable

When the blind man was healed by Jesus, his neighbours took him to see the Pharisees because he was healed on the Sabbath. However, the Jewish leaders refused to believe the man had been blind and could now see, so they called in his parents. When the parents acknowledged the man as their son and confirmed his blindness at birth, the Pharisees were still unwilling to believe the miracle. The Pharisees again called back the man who was blind to question him once more. By this time, the man was exasperated and emphatically explained to the Pharisees the simplicity of it all---Jesus must be from God if He could open the eyes of someone who was born blind.

"'Why, that's very strange!' the man replied.

'He healed my eyes,

and yet you don't know where He comes from?

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners,

but He is ready to hear those who worship

and do His will.

Ever since the world began,

no one has been able to open the eyes

 of someone born blind.

If this man were not form God,

He couldn't have done it.'"

However, the Pharisees did not respond to the man's intelligent reasoning in acceptance, but in anger and violence.

"'You were born a total sinner!' 

they answered.

'Are you trying to teach us?'

And they threw him out of the synagogue."

John 9:34 (NLT)

The Pharisees were so blinded by their arrogance and self-righteousness, they were incapable of seeing the light. 

They had become non-teachable.