John 9:30 The man answered and said to them, “Why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know where He is from; yet He has opened my eyes!”
The 1928 Webster’s
dictionary defines the word “marvelous” as: Wonderful;
strange; exciting wonder or some degree of surprise. A “marvelous thing” in
the Bible is something that generates awe or wonder. Sometimes it refers to a
miracle, but more often to something very unexpected and remarkable.
Psalm 118:23 This is the
Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
One commentary states, but
the most marvelous thing of all is that unbelievers still persist in their unbelief.
In our text passage the Lord Jesus Christ had just performed one of His most
amazing miracles of creation—making perfect eyes for a man with no eyes, blind
from birth. As the man testified to the frustrated Pharisees: “Since the world began was it not heard that
any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind” (John 9:32). Yet these religious intellectuals, so opinionated in
their prejudices, refused to believe what they saw and heard. Similarly, “when the chief priests and scribes saw the
wonderful things [i.e., ‘marvelous things’] that he did, . . . they were sore
displeased” (Matthew 21:15).
There are none so blind as
those who refuse to see. One of the saddest verses in the Bible is John
1:10: “He was in the world, and
the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” And, “he came unto his own, and his own received
him not” (v. 11). Even when He raised Lazarus from the dead, “the chief priests consulted that they might
put Lazarus also to death; Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went
away, and believed on Jesus” (John
12:10-11).
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