Therefore:
1. The harder to be cured.
2. The man was the more credible, who had so long known what it was to be without the use of his limbs, which now he enjoyed.
3. Whom they could not themselves but have often seen and heard begging. But if he had laid so many years in the porch of the temple through which our Saviour frequently entered, how came it to pass that he was not cured before? We do not read that our Saviour denied any who came for cure. There need no other answer, but that all times and seasons are in God's hands, who justly forbore to send deliverance till this very time, and now mercifully sent it; especially reserving this miracle for the confirmation of the truth of the gospel, and of the apostles themselves in the preaching of it.