The blind man who Jesus healed had a verbal war with the Pharisees. The Pharisees
argued that Jesus was not of God because He performed miracles on the Sabbath day.
The young man thought otherwise. In John 9:33, he argued that if Jesus was sinful as
they claimed, He would not have been able to connect with God and do the miracles,
because God does not hear sinners. They felt insulted and lashed at him in the words of
our text. They condemned the young man as unwell, wondering at his temerity to teach
them. This brings us two salient things about knowledge. Firstly, anybody can be our
teacher in one area or the other. Recently, a post was trending on social media. It was a
lecturer who found a woman in his class who happened to have taught him in nursery
school. A teacher today can be a student tomorrow, and those who care about
knowledge must never forget this.
“If you think you already know, you cut yourself from the flow of learning.”
Secondly, no one can knows everything. The moment you feel satiated with learning,
you will lose out on what you do not know. In our previous meditation, we cited
Epictetus when he warned about our association. Here is another quote of his: “It is
impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” If you think you already
know, you cut yourself from the flow of learning. Let us be guided by the words of Paul
to the Corinthians: “And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet
as he ought to know.” (I Corinthians