We all know the story in John 9: Jesus heals a man born blind.

But the real shocker isn’t the instant sight.

It’s the verse where Jesus seems to suggest the man was born broken on purpose, just so this moment could happen.

Surely God wouldn’t pre-program decades of pain for a single miracle.

Right?

The answer is buried in one tiny Greek word — and once you see it, the whole story flips.

John’s Gospel is different from the other three. Where they’re more of a ‘tell the story as it happened’ type of narrative, John takes a deeper, more theological perspective.

Where the other gospels give us the play by play, John gives us the deeper architecture underneath.

John 19 isn’t simply about how Jesus died. It’s about who He is — and what God was doing through Him on the most important day in human history.

I used to think Jesus walking on the water was just a cool miracle, but I also wondered why he’d do something like that as it seemed a little strange. No one was around to see it, it didn’t seem to benefit other people like most of his miracles did.

I wondered if there was more to this that I just wasn’t getting.

Turns out there was! A whole lot more.