Matthew Chapter 20 verse 34 Holy Bible
And Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and straightway they received their sight, and followed him.
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And Jesus, being moved with pity, put his fingers on their eyes: and straight away they were able to see, and went after him.
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And Jesus, moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes had sight restored to them, and they followed him.
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So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
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Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.
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and having been moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 34. - Touched their eyes. Only St. Matthew mentions this action of our Lord; but in all other cases of the cure of blindness the healing touch of the Man accompanied the word of the God (comp. Matthew 9:29; Mark 8:23; John 9:6), and Christ did not now depart from his usual practice. Thus, as we have noticed before, he connected the cure with himself. He proved that his flesh taken unto the Godhead was life-giving, remedial, efficacious; and he confirmed the faith of the sufferers and bystanders by showing that there was no deceit or collusion. The other synoptists give Christ's assurance to the men, that the restoration of their sight was the reward of faith - a faith exhibited by the invocation of Jesus as "Son of David," by continued importunity amid surrounding difficulties, by confidence in his power and willingness to heal brought to a point by Christ's question, "What will ye that I shall do unto you?" They followed him. A fact only less remarkable than the miracle that led to it. The impulse of a grateful heart drew them along the road which the Saviour travelled. They may have accompanied him to Jerusalem, and joined the applauding multitude which escorted him to the holy city, and employed their new power of sight in observing that wonderful spectacle which the next few days afforded. One, at any rate, of these men, Bartimaeus, seems to have become known in the early Church as a devoted follower of Christ, and hence his name is recorded for all time in the sacred narrative.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(34) So Jesus had compassion.--Literally, and Jesus. It was not His purpose to meet the popular demand for signs and wonders, but compassion drew from Him the work of power which otherwise He would have shrunk from here. And then the two followed Him, glorifying God. In St. Luke's narrative the incident is followed by the story of Zacchaeus and the parable of the Pounds. Possibly (see Note on Matthew 20:30) they preceded it.
