«Ask Him to work some miracles. He is powerful. He can heal. He can read your hearts. He can answer all your questions.»
«Tell Him, on my behalf, that I am not well. My right eye is blind. My left one is already failing…»
«Master.»
«Judas.» Jesus, Who is caressing a little girl, turns around.
«Master, this man is almost blind and he wants to see. I told him you can…»
«I can heal him who has faith. Have you faith, man?»
«I believe in the God of Israel. I come here to enter the Bethzatha Pool. But there is always someone before me.»
«Can you believe in Me?»
«If I believe in the angel of the pool, should I not believe in You, Who Your disciple says are the Messiah?»
Jesus smiles. He wets His finger with saliva and lightly touches the diseased eye. «What can you see?»
«I see things without the fog I used to see. Are You not healing the other one?»
Jesus smiles once again. He repeats the operation on the blind eye. «What can you see?» He asks, removing His fingertip from the closed eyelid.
«Ah! Lord of Israel! I can see as well as when I was a little boy, running through the meadows! May You be blessed forever and ever!” The man cries, kneeling at Jesus’ feet.
«Go. Be good, now, out of gratitude to God.»
68.7 A Levite who arrived towards the end of the miracle, asks: «With what authority do You do such things?»
«Are you asking Me? I will tell you, if you answer a question. According to you, who is greater, a prophet who prophesies the Messiah or the Messiah Himself?»
«What a question! The Messiah is greater: He is the Redeemer promised by the Most High!»
«Well, then, why did the Prophets work miracles? Whit what authority?»
«With the authority given to them by God to prove to the crowds that God was with them.»
«Well, I perform miracles with the same authority: God is with Me, I am with Him. And I thus prove to the people that what I say is true and that the Messiah, with a greater right and a greater power, can do what the Prophets were able to do.»
The Levite goes away pensive and the vision ends.