Today’s Gospel tells us of the miracle of the cure of the blind man in Jericho. This man was not only blind, he was also poor. This is why he begged. ‘He sat at the side of the road, begging’, as the text says. Where he was sitting, he could hear the noise of the people passing by and wondered what was going on. He was told that it was Jesus from Nazareth. But why were there so many people with Christ? The feast of the Passover was approaching and Christ was on his way to Jerusalem, after leaving Bethany where he had raised Lazarus. But lots of other people were also going to Jerusalem, as large groups of pilgrims, ...
