{"id":1051,"date":"2007-07-02T09:11:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T09:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/07\/verse-of-the-day-seeing-and-be.html"},"modified":"2007-07-02T09:11:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T09:11:47","slug":"verse-of-the-day-seeing-and-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/07\/verse-of-the-day-seeing-and-be.html","title":{"rendered":"Verse of the Day: Seeing and Believing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the men had come to him, they said, &#8220;John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, &#8220;Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?&#8217; &#8221; Jesus had just then cured many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and had given sight to many who were blind. 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