MATTHEW 21:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.”
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.
Church Fathers on Matthew 21:14
When Jesus entered with the multitudes, the whole city of Jerusalem was moved, wondering at the crowds, and not knowing the power.
With good reason were they moved at sight of a thing so to be wondered at. Man was praised as God, but it was the God that was praised in the man. But, I suppose, that neither they who praised knew what they praised, but the Spirit that suddenly inspired there poured forth the words of truth.
Moreover, when Jesus entered the true Jerusalem, they cried out, wondering at His heavenly virtues, and said, 'Who is this King of glory?' [Ps 24:8]
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