The man born blind (Jn. 9) felt the touch of Christ and found both physical and spiritual vision. The Pharisees who investigated the affair could not believe the miracle had taken place. The man said to them, “One thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see” (Jn. 9:25).

The Pharisees’ souls were “flat,” like those described in the third stanza of the following poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay:

The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;

Above the world is stretched the sky —
No higher than the soul is high.

The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;

The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.

But East and West will pinch the heart
That cannot keep them pushed apart;

And he who soul is flat — the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.