To complete the story, it remained only for the former blind man to meet Jesus in person. Like a shepherd looking for his lost sheep, Jesus took the initiative in this reunion. He found the man after his expulsion from the synagogue (v. 35), just as he had earlier found the sick man in the temple after the healing at Bethesda (cf. 5:14). He merely warned the sick man he had healed against further sin, but here he makes a serious attempt to elicit faith: Do you believe in the Son of Man? This is the only place in the entire New Testament where Son of Man is used as a confessional or creedal term. The reader anticipates instead “Son of God” or “the Christ” (cf. 1:34; 11:27; 20:31). Son of Man was Jesus’ own self-designation, but there is little evidence in the Gospels that he expected others…