The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

The following will give us an insight into the Pharisees unbelief and denial of who Jesus was and calmed to be in no uncertain terms and language. John in his rendition of events beginning just before the Last Supper (chapter 12 through 21) and continuing from there reveals much about our spiritual state that was about to come about. But we must become willing to change and then allow the change for it to happen within us, this is to say we have to take position of it.

John 9:1-12, 13-17, 18-23, 24-34, 35-41 As Jesus passed by, He saw a man which was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? To this Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.(John1:4, 11:25, 5:26, 1Cor. 15:45, 1John 5:11, Rev. 22:1; Gen. 2:7) When He had thus spoken, He spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, He then anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. His neighbors, they which before had seen and known him, that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said, This is he: others He is like him: but he said, I am he. Therefore they said to him, How were your eyes opened? He answered, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight. Then they said to him, Where is he? He said, I know not.

Controversy over this Man

They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keeps not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. They said to the blind man again, What say you of him, that he has opened your eyes? He said, He is a prophet. But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who you say was born blind? how then does he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: But by what means he now sees, we know not; or who has opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. These words spoke his parents, because they feared the Jews (the leaders): for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that He was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. 

Again they called the man that was blind, and said to him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. Do you know whether he be a sinner or not, He answered their question, I know not: but this one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. Then they said to him again, What did He do to you? how did He opened your eyes? He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear: wherefore would you hear it again? will you also be His disciples? Then they reviled him, and said, You are His disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. We know that God spoke to Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from where He is from. The man answered them, Why herein is a marvelous thing, that you know not from where He is from, and yet He has opened my eyes. Now we know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be a worshiper of God, and does His Will, him He hears. Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. If this man were not of God, He could do nothing. They answered him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.

Jesus Affirms His Deity

Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said to him, Do you believe the Son of God? To this he answered, Who is He, Lord, that I might believe Him? To this Jesus said, You have both seen Him, and it is He that talks with you. He said, Lord, I believe. And he worshiped Him. And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. Then some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said to him, Are we blind also? Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you should have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.