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Matthew 20:34

Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    Iesus had compassion on the and touched their eyes. And immediatly their eyes receaved syght. And they folowed him.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    And Iesus mooued with compassion, touched their eyes, and immediatly their eyes receiued sight, and they followed him.

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Cross-references (18)

Passages linked to Matthew 20:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Matthew 9:29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
  • Psalms 145:8 Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
  • Luke 22:51 But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—and he touched his ear, and healed him.
  • Hebrews 4:15-16 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
  • Psalms 119:67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
  • Psalms 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
  • Matthew 8:15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.
  • Matthew 14:14 Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.
  • Matthew 15:32 Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”
  • Mark 7:33 He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
  • Luke 7:13 When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”
  • Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
  • Matthew 9:36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.
  • Luke 18:43 Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
  • John 9:6-7 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
  • John 11:33-35 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept.
  • 1 Peter 3:8 Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
  • Hebrews 2:17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched…

34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

Ver. 34. And Jesus had compassion on them] He made their case his own. Misericordia Mercy sounds as much as misery laid to heart. Christ’s heart sounded upon the sight and suit of these blind beggars, Isa 63:15, and this was beyond all alms, should he have done no more for them. For when one gives an alms, he gives somewhat without himself, but by compassion we relieve another by somewhat within and from ourselves, while we draw out our soul (not our sheaf only) to the hungry, Isa 58:10.

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And immediately their eyes received sight] This is not every blind man’s happiness, that yet prays for sight. But there is a better eyesight than that of the body, which if God vouchsafe to any in bodily blindness (as he did to that blind boy of Gloucester that had suffered imprisonment there for confessing the truth) it may be said to such surely, as Bishop Hooper the martyr did to him, Ah, poor boy, God hath taken from thee thy outward sight, but hath given thee another much more precious, &c. (Acts and Mon.) The like favour God showed to Didimus Alexandrinus, who though blind from his childhood, yet was not only an excellent artist, but an able divine; and wrote certain commentaries on the Psalms, and likewise on the Gospels; being now (saith Jerome, who relates it) above 83 years of age. Trithemius and Bozius report the like things concerning one Nicasius de Voarda, a Dutchman, who being struck blind at three years old, became nevertheless an excellent scholar, and skilful in the laws, which he publicly professed at Collen. Afterwards he proceeded Master of Arts at Lovain, Licentiate in Divinity at the same University, and lastly Doctor of the Laws at Cullen; where, after he had printed his public lectures, he died, and was buried in the Cathedral Church, A.D. 1491, 17 Calend. September. (August 16.)

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 34. So Jesus had compassion on them] επλαγχνιαθεις,…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 34. Touched their eyes — To show that the…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 34. they followed him] It is probable that very…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (34) So Jesus had compassion.—Literally, and Jesus. It was…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Touched their eyes. Only St. Matthew mentions this action…
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 34. Jesus … touched their eyes. The faith of…

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