‘And he said, “Lord, I believe”', and he worshipped him.'
The man's eyes had now been opened again, this time spiritually, and he confessed Jesus as ‘Lord'. How far he yet saw the full truth we do not know, but we are undoubtedly to see this as the beginning of a genuine discipleship. (He previously called Jesus ‘sir' using the same word ‘kurios', but the change in his viewpoint demands the change in translation).
‘He worshipped him.' We are probably to see here that he fell on his face before Him. He realised now that he was in contact with Someone far beyond what he had previously imagined. When men who are spiritually blind have their eyes opened they too will worship Jesus. We note here that while in Revelation the angel told John not to worship him (Revelation 22:9), Jesus made no such restriction about homage to Himself. He accepted the worship as His right. The use elsewhere in John's Gospel of the word used here is restricted to the worship of God (see especially John 4:20-24).