The man born blind goes, as he was told, to wash in the pool of Siloam. Tissot paints the ancient pool under its great arch. The man “went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.”
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Del Parson
Christ Healing a Blind Man
Under copyright, so not shown here.
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Image: Brooklyn Museum, via Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
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