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Everyone wants to know why he was healed twice. The two touches teach that faith comes in stages: first you see a little, then you see more. You may have heard the sermon with the eye doctor in it, “Better one, or better two?” It’s comforting, and it’s a lie, because it makes the healing wait on the patient. If the second touch is about your progress, then your sight depends on the one thing the text never mentions. But the blind man does nothing. He is led, touched, asked, and touched again. Everything that happens to him is done for him.