And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you?
Ver. 32. And Jesus stood still] See the admirable power of fervent prayer. Preces Christum licet festinantem remorantur, Christ stands and stays (for all the haste of his journey to Jerusalem, which till he had finished, oh how was he straitened, Luk 12:50) to hear the blind beggars' petition. So the sun once stood still in Gibeon, and the moon in the valley of Ajalon, upon the prayer of worthy Joshua, who set the trophies of his victory in the very orbs of heaven.