Main news for 2 December 2025

Different people react differently to Jesus' appearance. And the most direct reaction, as a rule, is shown by those who seek help from Him, most often healing. This is understandable: such people usually have nothing to lose. What demand can be made of a blind beggar sitting by the highway? Those around him try to make him be quiet or at least not shout so loudly.

They can be understood: by this time all kinds of rumors about Jesus were already circulating among the people, and attitudes toward Him and His preaching were ambiguous. To many respected and authoritative people in religious society, it seemed at least doubtful. But the blind beggar by the roadside had little concern for these respected and authoritative people: none of them could help him. Nor did the respected and authoritative people need him. Of course, they gave him alms, and he did not die of hunger.

But that was the limit of what he could receive from society and from the people respected in society. And here is someone who can help for real, can heal, can deliver from blindness. Some preacher. People say He is a prophet. Perhaps He is not a prophet, but He heals, that is certain. If such a one passes by on the road, how can one not make use of the opportunity? How can one not call out? All the more if seeing again is the chief goal and chief meaning of life. Here an important spiritual law is at work: for relationships with God, relationships with Christ, to be full, they must become unconditional. A person must follow Christ without looking back.

Without looking back at tradition, customs, or religious authorities. Otherwise nothing will come of it. And to go that way, one needs inner freedom from all this. Such freedom as that of the blind man by the road, who has nothing to lose. Who wants one thing, and wants it with all his soul, with his whole being. He, of course, does not yet understand whom he is dealing with. But his resolve is great; those who try to make him be quiet do not have such resolve. And thanks to this resolve and to his trust in the Stranger, the blind beggar receives what he wants. Those who tried to make him be quiet receive nothing. That is not surprising: after all, they were not seeking anything.