21Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
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And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. …
Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-21)We have here an account of the people’s different sentiments concerning Christ, on occasion of the foregoing discourse; there was a division, a schism , among them; they differed in their opinions, which threw them into heats and parties. Such a ferment as this they had been in before ( John 7:43 ; 9:16 ); and where there has once been a division again. Rents are sooner made than made up or mended…
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