Matthew 9:29

29 So He touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith let it be to you."

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 passed on, two blind men followed Him, shouting and saying, "Pity us, Son of David."

28 And when He had gone indoors, they came to Him. "Do you believe that I can do this?" He asked them. "Yes, Sir," they replied.

29 So He touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith let it be to you."

30 Then their eyes were opened. And assuming a stern tone Jesus said to them, "Be careful to let no one know."

31 But they went out and published His fame in all that district.