34So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
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For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. …
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, …
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-34)We have here an account of the cure of two poor blind beggars; in which we may observe, I. Their address to Christ, Matt. 20:29 , 30 . And in this, 1. The circumstances of it are observable. It was as Christ and his disciples departed from Jericho; of that devoted place, which was rebuilt under a curse, Christ took his leave with this blessing, for he received gifts even for the rebellious. It was…
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