33And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
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And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, …
And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. …
He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-37)Our Lord Jesus seldom staid long in a place, for he knew where his work lay, and attended the changes of it. When he had cured the woman of Canaan’s daughter, he had done what he had to do in that place, and therefore presently left those parts, and returned to the sea of Galilee , whereabout his usual residence was; yet he did not come directly thither, but fetched a compass through the midst of…
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