B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary
Matthew 9:29
According to your faith be it unto you.
Faith is the hand which takes what God offers, the spiritual organ of appropriation, the conducting link between man's emptiness and, God's fulness.-- Schaff.
According to your faith be it unto you.
Faith is the hand which takes what God offers, the spiritual organ of appropriation, the conducting link between man's emptiness and, God's fulness.-- Schaff.
Verse 29. _ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH_] Matthew 8:13, Matthew 8:13....
THEN TOUCHED HE THEIR EYES - Simply to indicate that the power proceeded from him. Compare Matthew 8:3. ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH ... - That is, you have “believed” that you could be healed, be healed a...
CHAPTER 9 1. A Man Sick of the Palsy Healed. (Matthew 9:1 .) 2. The Call of Matthew (Matthew 9:9 .) 3. With the Publicans and the Sinners. (Matthew 9:10 .) 4. The Question of John's Disciples. ...
TWO BLIND MEN HEALED. Mt. only; perhaps a doublet of Matthew 20:20, with reminiscences (in Matthew 9:30 f.) of Mark 1:43. See M-' Neile, 128f. Son of David first appears as a Messianic title in Ps. So...
THE GROWTH OF OPPOSITION (Matthew 9:1-34) We have repeatedly seen that in Matthew's gospel there is nothing haphazard. It is carefully planned and carefully designed. In Matthew 9:1-38 we see another...
And, as he passed on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting. "Have pity on us, they said, "you Son of David." When he came into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, " Do...
ACCORDING TO. Greek. _kata._ App-104....
A Cure of two Blind Men Peculiar to St Matthew. Archbp. Trench alludes to the fact that cases of blindness are far more numerous in the East than in Western countries. "The dust and flying sand enter...
A CURE OF TWO BLIND MEN Peculiar to St Matthew. Archbp. Trench alludes to the fact that cases of blindness are far more numerous in the East than in Western countries. ‘The dust and flying sand enter...
Ver 27. And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, "Thou Son of David, have mercy on us." 28. And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and J...
_COMPASSION HEALED THE BLIND, MUTE AND CALLED FOR LABORERS MATTHEW 9:27-38:_ The request of the blind men was, "have pity and mercy on us." In compassion Jesus touched their eyes and gave them sight....
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DISCOURSE: 1339 TWO BLIND MEN HEALED Matthew 9:28. _And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him...
SECTION 21 JESUS GIVES SIGHT TO TWO BLIND MEN AND FREES A DUMB DEMONIAC TEXT: 9:27-34 27. And as Jesus passed by from thence, two blind men followed him, crying out, and saying, Have mercy on us,...
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. THEN TOUCHED HE THEIR EYES, SAYING, ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH BE IT UNTO YOU - not, Receive a cure proportioned to your fa...
14 It is a most difficult lesson for the saints to learn, that God's dealings with His creatures change, and that their conduct should change accordingly, John's disciples thought that the Lord's foll...
HEALING OF TWO BLIND MEN IN THE HOUSE (peculiar to St. Matthew). Blindness, chiefly as the result of ophthalmia, is exceedingly common in the East, and several miracles of restoring sight to the blind...
THE SICK OF THE PALSY. CALL OF MATTHEW. RAISING OF JAIRUS' DAUGHTER 1-8. The paralytic healed and his sins forgiven (Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17). The peculiarity of this miracle is that it was worked to prov...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 9 3. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT WALK 9:1-8 V1 Then Jesus stepped into a boat. He went back across the lake and arrived at his own town. V...
THEN TOUCHED HE THEIR EYES. — This is the first recorded instance of the method which our Lord seems always to have adopted in the case of the blind, and, in part also, in that of the deaf. Others mig...
CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...
_Two blind men_. This miracle-narrative and the next paratively colourless and uninteresting. They bring under notice two new types of disease, blindness and possession accompanied with dumbness. The...
THE MERCIFUL DELIVERER Matthew 9:27-34 It is thus that the Master speaks to us: _Believe ye_ that I am able to make you happy, though you are cut off from the light and gladness of the world? _Believ...
The King now exercised His authority in a new way. He pronounced pardon on a sinner, and straightway opposition was aroused. To the questioning and rebellious hearts He vindicated His authority to for...
THE BLIND MEN HEALED Matthew 9:27-31. “And two blind men followed Him coming out from thence [i.e., from Jairus's house], saying, Have mercy on us, O Son of David! And the two blind men came to Him, h...
Concerning this miracle, I beg the Reader particularly to observe, that the cry of those men was evidently the cry of faith: for the name by which they distinguished Christ, Thou SON of David! was the...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_THE FAITH AND THE GIFT_ ‘According to your faith be it unto you.’ Matthew 9:29 The measure of our faith will be always the measure of the gift. But, as many and as different as are the benefits wh...
29._According to your faith. _Though the subject of the narrative is a remarkable benefit conferred on _two blind men, _yet from this declaration of Christ we may draw the general doctrine, that if we...
In the following chapter (chapter 9), while acting in the character and according to the power of Jehovah (as we read in Psalms 103), "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases...
THEN TOUCHED HE THEIR EYES,.... Not but that he could have restored sight to them, without touching their eyes, by a word speaking, or by the secret communication of his power; but he might do this as...
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. Ver. 29. _According to your faith_] Questionless (saith a famous divine) justifying faith is not beneath miraculous, in the...
_And when Jesus departed thence_ Namely, from the ruler's house; _two blind men_, who probably had heard of his being there, and waited for his coming out; _followed him_ As he went through the street...
T HEN TOUCHED HE THEIR EYES, SAYING. ACCORDING UNTO YOUR FAITH, BE IT UNTO YOU....
The healing and its effect:...
Returning to His own city, Capernaum, He has brought to Him a man totally helpless, lying on a bed. This case of palsy is indicative of the complete debilitating effects of sin: man is left without st...
27-31 At this time the Jews expected Messiah would appear; these blind men knew and proclaimed in the streets of Capernaum that he was come, and that Jesus was he. Those who, by the providence of God...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 9:31"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And not merely in works, but also in faith, has God preserved the will of man free and under his own control, saying, "According to thy faith be it unto thee; "[611]...
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‘Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.” Jesus makes clear that He is responding to their faith. He uses His touch of power, touching their eyes and declaring...
THE RESTORING OF SIGHT TO TWO BLIND MEN. The raising of the Ruler's daughter from the dead is now followed by a further Messianic sign, the opening of the eyes of the blind (see Matthew 11:5). In this...
WHAT JESUS HAS TO OFFER AND THE GROWTH OF PHARISAIC OPPOSITION (9:10-34). We are now informed about the first open opposition among the Pharisees to Jesus. The Pharisees had seemingly previously appro...
The four miracles mentioned in this section seem to have occurred in immediate succession. On the way to the house of the ruler, the woman with an issue of blood is cured; the ruler's daughter is rais...
Matthew 9:29. THEN TOUCHED HE THEIR EYES. As an outward sign of His power. ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH, etc. Faith is the hand which takes what God offers, the spiritual organ of appropriation, the cond...
TOUCHED THEIR EYES (ηψατο των οφθαλμων). The men had faith (Matthew 9:28) and Jesus rewards their faith and yet he touched their eyes as he sometimes did with kindly sympathy....
Matthew 9:27. _And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, thou son of David, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the house,_ I suppose the house at Capern...
Matthew 9:27. _And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us._ No sooner does Jesus move than fresh candidates for his bounty app...
Matthew 9:18. _While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall li...
Matthew 9:1. _And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city._ Our Lord had given these Gergesenes an opportunity of becoming his disciples, the kingdom of God had come very...
CONTENTS: Healing of the palsied man. Call of Matthew. Answering the Pharisees. Healing of woman with issue of blood. Daughter of a ruler raised from the dead. Two blind men healed. A demon cast out....
Matthew 9:1. _Jesus came into his own city,_ Capernaum, as in Mark. Our Saviour was a stranger on earth, born in Bethlehem, an exile in Egypt, resident at Nazareth, but latterly in Capernaum. Matthew...
MAY IF HAPPEN. Faith is the hand that reaches out to seize what God offers....
_Then touched He their eyes._ THE OPENED EYE The power, glory, rewards of faith form the theme of this chapter. I. The faith described in the text was the first outgrowth and expression of a deep a...
CHAPTER 9 _Passed over_ : that is, sailed across the sea of Galilee, to its western side. _And came into his own city._ Sedulius thinks Bethlehem is meant because he was born there. S. Jerome, with mo...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 9:27. TWO BLIND MEN.—This miracle narrated by St. Matthew only. Blindness is a far more frequent calamity in Palestine and the adjoining countries than with us. Its frequency...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 9:1 _The_ _paralytic forgiven and healed. _Parallel passages: Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17. (For connexion of thought, cf....
And so he entered into a ship, and he passed over, and he came to his own city (Matthew 9:1). His own city being Capernaum. I told you that was his headquarters. And, behold, they brought to him a ma...
John 9:6; John 9:7; Mark 10:52; Matthew 15:28; Matthew 20:34;...