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Glossary Definition of word.
textual cueing system
The textual cueing system is based upon the organization of the text. The literary form or genre influences the text’s structure or organization which in turn influences meaning or interpretations. Some forms lend themselves towards strict organizational patterns (e.g., legal document or poem). Other forms tend towards a loose or fluid arrangement (e.g., dialogue or personal journal).
John 9:17-27 records a dialogue between the Pharisees and a man healed by Jesus and the man’s parents. Knowing that the following passage is a dialogue which integrates personal recollections of a very controversial event prepares us for the elusive exchange. The parents claim ignorance, but can you trust their words? No. The nature of an interrogation alters the way we interpret the words.
The Pharisees “say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?”
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