Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 15:30-31

"And there came unto him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them down at this feet; and he healed them: insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they glorified the God of Israel." — Matthew 15:30-31 (ASV)

Still the same story. The magnet always attracts. The crowd is increased in volume. Great multitudes came unto him. They seem to spring up from the earth and swarm from the sea.

They are so soon about our Lord that there is no interval in which He might rest. The sickness which they bring before Him is still more varied than in former times. What a list of patients! What a gathering of miseries to one spot!

The expectation of the people remains at flood-tide. They have the sick with them and they cast them down at Jesus’ feet, leaving them with Him in full confidence. The healing power continues to flow in full force.

That one sentence is a grand summary of His marvelous cures, He healed them. This time the result is a greater degree of wonder among the crowd, attended by a gracious character of praise to Israel’s God: They glorified the God of Israel. It was evident to them that Jehovah had remembered and visited His people, and was healing their sicknesses, and so for the moment they gave Him glory. What must it have been to be an eyewitness of such a scene of healing and of worship! What an education for the apostles! What support for their faith in trying days after their Master was taken from them!

Lord, when we experience a revival of true religion, we behold the greatness of Your healing power in the spiritual world and we, therefore, glorify the God of Israel—the God of the covenant, the God of wrestling prayer, the God of all grace.