Today we hear stories that show that King Ahab indeed “sold himself to evil,” including the story of Naboth's vineyard. And also we hear of Ahab's friendship with King Jehoshaphat of Judah. And we hear how the prophecies against Ahab were fulfilled.
Consider how exciting it would have been to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. And let’s all keep ‘marching to Zion’.
This is a place where our chapter divisions in our Bibles probably do not serve us well. In the original manuscript by John, there would not be any separation between what Jesus said to the Pharisees to answer their question about spiritual blindness, and this chapter. In fact, in John’s day they didn’t even have spaces between words. So in all likelihood, there was not even a new line to start this teaching. So let’s envision Jesus giving this teaching while the previously blind man and the Pharisees were listening.
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