Verse Lens · Context pointer
Matthew 21:14 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 14. 14And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.
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Role in This Section
Brings blind and lame people to Jesus in the temple for healing.
Read It With
- Matthew 21:12–21:17
Read Matthew 21:14 with 21:12–21:17. In isolation, this verse's contribution—brings blind and lame people to Jesus in the temple for healing—can be detached from its speaker, audience, narrative or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Jesus drives sellers and buyers from the temple, cites prayer and robbers, heals blind and lame people there, receives children's hosannas, and leaves hostile chief priests and scribes for Bethany.
Why It Needs Context
Brings blind and lame people to Jesus in the temple for healing. Its force depends on the complete movement and outcome of Matthew 21:12–21:17; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Matthew 21:12–21:17 — Jesus confronts temple commerce and receives children's praiseSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Matthew 21:12–21:17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 21:12–21:17
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