turn to the purposes and plans of God. There is no child and no suffering outside God’s purposes. “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents.” This blindness came about “in order that that the works of God might be displayed in this man.” This is not the whole explanation of suffering in the Bible. There are dozens of other relevant passages and important points to make. But this passage and this point are massively important. Let me draw out one or two things, and then we will pick it up the