Matthew 9:29

29 Then he touched their eyes. He said, "It will happen to you just as you believed."

Matthew 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.

Matthew 9:29 In-Context

27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him. They called out, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!"

28 When Jesus went indoors, the blind men came to him. He asked them, "Do you believe that I can do this?" "Yes, Lord," they replied.

29 Then he touched their eyes. He said, "It will happen to you just as you believed."

30 They could now see again. Jesus strongly warned them, "Be sure that no one knows about this."

31 But they went out and spread the news. They talked about him all over that area.