But I assert that he even received benefit from his blindness: since he recovered the sight of the eyes within.
-St. John Chrysostom, Homily 56 on John 9, 4th Century


When, then, have they taken place, save when the Word of God Himself came in the body? Or when did He come, if not when lame men walked, and stammerers were made to speak plain, and deaf men heard, and men blind from birth regained their sight? For this was the very thing the Jews said who then witnessed it, because they had not heard of these things having taken place at any other time.
-St. Athanasius, Incarnation of the Word 38, 4th Century