And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. While he rendered his tribute to Him from whom cometh down every good and perfect gift, he gave thanks at the same time to the mysterious, beneficent Hand by which the cure was performed. And as these men must have had their faith kindled by the reported wonders of His hand on others like themselves, no doubt they saw in Jesus what the Samaritans of Sychar did - "the Christ, the Saviour of the world" (John 4:42), however imperfect their conceptions.