Jews were looking for the Messiah; but He did not come as they had predicted that He would, and if He were accepted as the Promised One, their learned teachers would be forced to acknowledge that they had erred. These leaders had separated themselves from God, and Satan worked upon their minds to lead them to reject the Saviour. Rather than yield their pride of opinion, they closed their eyes to all the evidences of His Messiahship, and they not only rejected the message of salvation themselves, but they steeled the hearts of the people against Jesus. Their history should be a solemn warning to us. We need never expect that when the Lord has light for His people, Satan will stand calmly by and make no effort to prevent them from receiving it. He will work upon minds to excite distrust and jealousy and unbelief. Let us beware that we do not refuse the light God sends, because it does not come in a way to please us. Let not God's blessing be turned away from us because we know not the ti…
"And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."
Both passages discuss the rejection of Jesus due to pride and unwillingness to accept new perspectives. John 9:39 speaks of spiritual blindness, while the EGW passage elaborates on how the Jewish leaders closed their eyes to the evidence of Jesus's Messiahship to protect their own positions.