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MATTHEW 9:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 9:28Matt 9:30
“Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.”
Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it done to you. The faith-responsive healing: according to your faith. The formula does not make faith the mechanism that produces the healing but the orientation toward Jesus that receives what he gives. Mark 9:23 says everything is possible for one who believes — the faith that receives is the faith that orients entirely toward the one who gives. The touch of the eyes — the specific organ that is being healed — is intimate and precise. Jesus' healing touches are always specific: the hand of Peter's mother-in-law, the fringe of the garment for the hemorrhaging woman, the eyes of the blind men.

Church Fathers on Matthew 9:29

The miracles that had gone before of the ruler’s d aug hter, and the woman with the issue of blood, are now followed by that of two blind men, that what death and disease had there witnessed, that blindness might now witness. 'And as Jesus passed thence,' that is, from the ruler’s house, there followed him two blind men, crying, and saying, Have mercy on us, thou Son of David.'

Jerome · 4th century

Here is no small charge against the Jews, that these men, having lost their sight, yet believe by means of their hearing only; while they who had sight, would not believe the miracles that were done. Observe their eagerness; they do not simply come to Him, but with crying, and asking for nothing but mercy; they call Him Son of David because that seemed to be a name of honour.

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom., xxxii

Rightly they call Him Son of David, because the Virgin Mary was of the line of David.

Remigius · 9th century
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