“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.”
The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. Jesus' answer to John is a catalog of Isaiah's restoration promises: Isaiah 35:5–6 (blind see, deaf hear, lame walk) and Isaiah 61:1 (good news to the poor). The catalog communicates that John should interpret what is happening through the lens of Isaiah's vision of the messianic age. Jesus is not the conquering king John's disciples may have expected but the fulfiller of the full range of the prophet's restoration promises.
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