Healing of the Man Born Blind by El Greco
Healing of the Man Born Blind is a 1573 oil painting by El Greco. It is housed in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma (art gallery in Parma, Italy). The painting depicts the story of Jesus restoring sight to a man who had been born blind. This miracle is detailed in the Gospel of John 9:1‐12. When Jesus and the disciples saw the blind man, Jesus spat on the ground and anointed the man's eyes with a mixture of mud and saliva. He told the blind man to go and wash in the Pool of Siloam (Siloam meaning "Sent"). The disciples asked, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus replied, "Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him. We have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
