A blind and deaf man stumbles into the desert and wanders for days, eventually starts to die of hunger and thirst.
He stumbles into an oasis where there is a spring of gushing water and fruit trees, laden with fruit.
Miraculously, he recovers his sight and sees the clear, cool water, and ripe fruit.
He then has a choice: to eat and drink, or to die…
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A blind and deaf man stumbles into the desert and wanders for days, eventually starts to die of hunger and thirst.
Delirious, he hallucinates the sights and sounds of an oasis where there is a spring of gushing water and fruit trees, laden with fruit.
In a moment of lucidity, he remembers that he’s blind and deaf, and recognizes that people who are terribly thirsty in the heat of the desert very often are reported to have hallucinated oases, but are never reported having miraculously gained their hearing and vision just as they stumble upon an actual oasis.
He then has a choice: to attempt to eat and drink what is almost certainly sand and likely choke while trying to believe in an hallucination, or to try clear his head and resist the urge to eat what is likely sand, and continue to try to survive.
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Thus proving to readers of the parable that he had never had his senses restored to him.
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