Matthew 11:5

The blind receive their sight.

As the article is wanting in each of these clauses, the sense would be better perceived by the English reader thus, though scarcely tuneful enough: "Blind persons are seeing, lame people are walking, leprous persons are getting cleansed, deaf people are hearing, dead persons are being raised."-- D. Brown. It must not be forgotten that the words here used by our Lord have an inner and spiritual sense, as betokening the blessings and miracles of divine grace on the souls of men, of which his outward and visible miracles were symbolical. The words are mostly cited from Isaiah 35:5, where the same spiritual meaning is conveyed by them.-- Alford.

Dead are raised.

In Luke, the raising of the widow's son at Nain immediately precedes this message; and in this Gospel we have had the ruler's daughter raised. These miracles might be referred to by our Lord under the words the dead are raised up; for it is to be observed that he bade them tell John not only what things they saw, but what things they had heard.--Alford. Malice itself cannot find reason to suspect. collusion when prophecies and miracles thus unite their testimony, and proclaim Jesus to be the Messiah.-- Bishop Horne.

The poor have the gospel preached to them.

It adds to the force of this testimony that the poor had always been overlooked by Pharisees and the Jewish doctors. The ancient philosophers and theologians had no gospel for those who could not pay for it. The climax is preaching the gospel to the poor.