Jesus Hears and Corrects

John 9: 35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 36 He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” 37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.” 38 He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. 39 Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” 40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

This whole chapter focuses on Jesus healing a blind man in the temple complex on the Sabbath.  When the religious leaders heard about it they were infuriated, at first refusing to believe the facts of the matter, then in jealousy and hatred kicking the man out of the temple for being healed and telling the truth.  Jesus was not about to let them get away with such injustice. He corrects the man's incomplete understanding of Who He was and corrects the Pharisees on who was really blind.  The man was not wrong; they were. They had refused to see their sin, guilt, and spiritual blindness and to ask for God's forgiveness and sight.