Matteo 9:29

29 Allora toccò loro gli occhi, dicendo: Siavi fatto secondo la vostra fede.

Matteo 9:29 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 9:29

Then touched he their eyes
Not but that he could have restored sight to them, without touching their eyes, by a word speaking, or by the secret communication of his power; but he might do this as a sign of his favour and kindness to them, and of his will to cure them; as also in compliance with their weakness, who might expect some manual operation upon them;

saying, according to your faith be it unto you:
not that faith in his person and power, was the cause or condition of this cure, or the rule and measure according to which Christ proceeded; but the sense is, that as they had believed he was able to heal them, accordingly a cure should be effected; which, upon his so saying, they immediately found performed in them.

Matteo 9:29 In-Context

27 Come Gesù partiva di là, due ciechi lo seguirono, gridando e dicendo: Abbi pietà di noi, o Figliuol di Davide!

28 E quand’egli fu entrato nella casa, que’ ciechi si accostarono a lui. E Gesù disse loro: Credete voi ch’io possa far questo? Essi gli risposero: Sì, o Signore.

29 Allora toccò loro gli occhi, dicendo: Siavi fatto secondo la vostra fede.

30 E gli occhi loro furono aperti. E Gesù fece loro un severo divieto, dicendo: Guardate che niuno lo sappia.

31 Ma quelli, usciti fuori, sparsero la fama di lui per tutto quel paese.