And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. The healing in the temple — the blind and the lame who were excluded from the temple (2 Samuel 5:8) now entering and being healed — communicates the radical inclusion that the messianic king brings. The excluded find the cleansed temple welcoming. Isaiah 35:5–6 promised that in the messianic age the blind would see and the lame leap for joy — Jesus fulfills the promise in the very space from which the disabled had been excluded.

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