Healing the Blind

Healing the blind is one of the most recognized and frequently recorded miracles of Jesus in the Gospels. It appears in multiple distinct episodes, across different locations, and involving different individuals. These accounts are not only testimonies to Jesus’ power but hold historical and symbolic meaning within the broader context of Christian faith. In the world of first-century Judea, blindness was a common affliction and often irreversible. Those who were blind lived on the margins of society. Many became beggars, dependent on charity. Without modern medicine or assistive technology, blindness meant exclusion from public life, religious service, and most forms of labor.