And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
Christ forbade them either to secure other witnesses to the miracle, or to delay its publication until the proper time. Their immediate proclamation everywhere shows inconsiderate zeal; they spread the rumor before they should have, whatever His actual reason for the silence was.
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In these verses we have an account of two more miracles wrought together by our Saviour. I. The giving of sight to two blind men, Mat 9:27-31. Christ is the Fountain of light as well as life; and as, by raising the dead, he showed himself to be the same that at first breathed into man the breath of life, so, by giving sight to...
Commenting on Matthew 9:27-34
The dumb man was not dumb by nature, but through Satan's possession; the devil had stripped away or restrained his speech out of pure malice, denying him the benefit of conversation and the ability to speak anything to God's glory.
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