38And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
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And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.
And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-43)Christ came not only to bring light to a dark world, and so to set before us the objects we are to have in view, but also to give sight to blind souls , and by healing the organ to enable them to view those objects. As a token of this, he cured many of their bodily blindness: we have now an account of one to whom he gave sight near Jericho. Mark gives us an account of one, and names him, whom he c…
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