<p>9:31 <i>We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone be a worshiper of God and does His will, him He hears</i>- Paul Tournier in <i>The Meaning Of Persons</i> perceptively comments: &ldquo;We become fully conscious only of what we are able to express to someone else. We may already have had a certain intuition about it, but it must remain vague so long as it is unformulated&rdquo;. This is why anyone involved in preaching, public speaking, writing or personal explanation of the Gospel to someone else will know that <i>they</i> have gained so much from having to state in so many words what they already &lsquo;know&rsquo;. And in the course of making the expression, our own understanding is deepened, our personal consciousness of what we believe is strengthened, and thereby our potential for a real faith is enhanced. Tournier&rsquo;s observation is validated by considering the record of the healed blind man in Jn. 9. Initially he says that he doesn&rsquo;t know whether or not Jesus is a sinner, all he knows is that Jesus healed him. But the Jews force him to testify further, and in the course of his witness, the man explains to them that God doesn&rsquo;t hear sinners, and so for Jesus to have asked God for his healing and been heard&hellip; surely proved that Jesus wasn&rsquo;t a sinner. He was sinless. The man was as it were thinking out loud, coming to conclusions himself, as he made his bold witness (Jn. 9:31,33).</p>