The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
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Gill's Exposition
The blind receive their sight,.... Our Lord here, has reference to several prophecies concerning the Messiah, in Isa 35:6 and which having their accomplishment in him, John and his disciples might…
Go and show John again ... - Jesus referred them for an answer to these miracles. They were proof that he was the Messiah. Prophets had indeed performed miracles, but no prophet had performed so many,…
The first verse of this chapter some join to the foregoing chapter, and make it (not unfitly) the close of that.
1. The ordination sermon which Christ preached to his disciples in the foregoing…
Cambridge Bible
Comp. Isa 35:5; Isa 61:1. The first passage describes the work of God, who "will comeand save you."
the poor have the gospel preached to them In earthly kingdoms envoys are sent to the rich and great.…
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