Mark 7: 31-37; Mark 8:22-26; John 9:1-41
When studying the Bible, one of the most important things for us to do is also one of the most difficult. We need to take ourselves out of the equation. When we’re studying the Bible, it’s not a question of how something sounds to us or how something makes us feel. When we interact with the Bible, we’re interacting with the very Word of God. So, the first thing we need to do is strip our own preconceptions and prejudices and attempt to encounter the Bible not where we are, but where and when it was written.
Jesus and His disciples didn’t live in the American culture. They lived in the 1st Century Judeo-Roman culture—a culture that was in the midst of its own daily shocks and upheavals. And as Jesus walked Judea—from Galilee to Jerusalem—He did things that are strange and shocking to us, but would have made complete sense to the people of the time. He would travel city to city—teaching and preaching: healing the sick and casting out evil spirits. And, three separate times, He spat.
Perhaps you’ve come across these passages: the three times that Jesus “spat” in His healings. Maybe you wondered “why”. Maybe you just ignored it. But today, we’re going to look at the three times that Jesus spat—and in doing so, we’re going to seek to understand why. Why’d Jesus spit?
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