Tucked away in chapter nine is yet another glimpse of God’s intent as seeker and what it looks like to respond as fully human as demonstrated by Jesus of Nazareth. The occasion is the formally blind man’s rejection by the governing religious authority. Once Jesus hears about how the man is being treated, He seeks him out to empathize with him. The irony in all this is that the healed man suffering rejection from his fellow man receives healing once again from the Son of man.