Matthew 21:14

The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

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WEBBE

The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

BSB

The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple, and He healed them.

KJV

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.

ASV

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.

BBE

And the blind and the broken in body came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.

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καὶ kai And G2532 προσῆλθον prosēlthon came G4334 αὐτῷ autō to Him G846 τυφλοὶ tuphloi blind G5185 καὶ kai and G2532 χωλοὶ chōloi lame G5560 ἐν en in G1722 τῷ tō the G3588 ἱερῷ hi'erō temple G2411 καὶ kai and G2532 ἐθεράπευσεν etherapeusen He healed G2323 αὐτούς autous them G846

The early church

For in the temple of God, that is in the Church, all have not eyesight, nor do all walk uprightly, but only they who understand that there is need of Christ and of none other to heal them; they coming to the Word of God are healed.
Origen of Alexandria · d. 253Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
But not in this way only doth He show His authority, but also by His healing divers infirmities. "For the blind and the tame came unto Him, and He healed them," and His power and authority He indicates.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Matthew
For had He not overthrown the tables of the money-changers and the seats of them that sold doves, the blind and the lame would not have deserved that their wonted sight and power of motion should be restored to them in the temple.
Jerome · d. 420Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
What the multitude had proclaimed by their shouts, the Lord shows in deeds; whence it follows, And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
Pseudo-Chrysostom · d. 500Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
That they are healed in the Temple signifies, that men cannot be healed but in the Church, to which is given the power of binding and loosing.
Remigius of Rheims · d. 533Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 12–17

Christ found some of the courts of the temple turned into a market for cattle and things used in the sacrifices, and partly occupied by the money-changers. Our Lord drove them from the place, as he had done at his entering upon his ministry, Joh 2:13-17. His works testified of him more than the hosannas; and his healing in the temple was the fulfilling the promise, that the glory of the latter house should be greater than the glory of the former. If Christ came now into many parts of his visible church, how many secret evils he would discover and cleanse! And how many things daily practised under the cloak of religion, would he show to be more suitable to a den of thieves than to a house of prayer!

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Jesus, The ChristTempleBlindnessLameness

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.