Sunday Reading .... Spittle Cures a Blind Man: Jesus spittle cures a blind man 1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.... 6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. Gospel of John, Chapter 9 (1st or 2d century AD) The Emperor Vespasians spittle cures a blind man At Alexandria a commoner, whose eyes were well known to have wasted away ...fell at Vespasians feet demanding with sobs a cure for his blindness, and imploring that the Emperor would deign to moisten his eyes and eyeballs with the spittle from his mouth. ... Vespasian .... did as the men desired him. Immediately the hand recovered its functions and daylight shone once more in the blind mans eyes. Those who were present still attest both miracles today, when there is nothing to gain by lying. Tacitus, The Histories, 4.81 (c 110 AD),—which you can find in: Levene, D.S.. Tacitus, The Histories (1997), pg. 228- 9 pocm.info/pagan_ideas_miracles.html
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