Matthew 9:29 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 9:29

Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it done unto you.

KJV

Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Then touched he their eyes - Simply to indicate that the power proceeded from him. Compare Mat 8:3. According to your faith ... - That is, you have “believed” that you could be healed, be healed accordingly. Your faith covered the whole extent of the work respecting my power and the absolute restoration to sight, and that power is exerted accordingly, and your sight is restored. So with the sinner.

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1355: “Our Lord's Question to the Blind Men” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1877)

[On this occasion the Members of the regular Congregation left their seats to strangers.) IN OUR own streets we meet, here and there, with a blind beggar, but they swarm in Eastern cities. Opthalmia is the scourge of Egypt and Syria and Volney declares that in Cairo, out of a hundred persons whom he met, 20 were quite blind, 10 had one eye, and 20 others were more or less afflicted in that organ. At the present day everyone is struck with the immense number of the blind in Oriental lands, but things were probably worse in our Savior's times.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

There are four lessons in this passage which deserve close attention. Let us mark them each in succession. Let us mark in the first place, that strong faith in Christ may sometimes be found where it might least have been expected. Who would have thought that two blind men would have called our Lord the “Son of David?”They could not, of course, have seen the miracles that he did: they could only know him by common report. But the eyes of their understanding were enlightened, if their bodily eyes were dark.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you--not, Receive a cure proportioned to your faith, but, Receive this cure as granted to your faith. Thus would they carry about with them, in their restored vision, a gracious seal of the faith which drew it from their compassionate Lord.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τότε	tote	Then	G5119 →
ἥψατο	hēpsato	He touched	G681 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
ὀφθαλμῶν	ophthalmōn	eyes	G3788 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
λέγων·	legōn	saying;	G3004 →
κατὰ	kata	According to	G2596 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
πίστιν	pistin	faith	G4102 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
γενηθήτω	genēthētō	it should be [done]	G1096 →
ὑμῖν.	humin	to you.	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 9:22
Jesus turned and saw her. “Take courage, daughter,” He said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was cured from that very hour.
leads to
- Luke 7:50
  And Jesus told the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 15:28
  “O woman,” Jesus answered, “your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Matthew 15:28
“O woman,” Jesus answered, “your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
leads to
- Mark 5:34
  “Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free of your affliction.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 9:22
  Jesus turned and saw her. “Take courage, daughter,” He said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was cured from that very hour.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Mark 9:23–24
  “If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”
- Matthew 8:13
  Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! As you have believed, so will it be done for you.” And his servant was healed at that very hour.
Through
Matthew 8:13
Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! As you have believed, so will it be done for you.” And his servant was healed at that very hour.
leads to
- Matthew 9:29–30
  Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”
- Mark 9:23
  “If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”