47And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
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Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
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.
They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 46-52)This passage of story agrees with that, Matt. 20:29 Only that there were told of two blind men; here, and Luke 18:35; only of one : but if there were two , there was one . This one is named here, being a blind beggar that was much talked of; he was called Bartimeus , that is, the son of Timeus ; which, some think, signifies the son of a blind man ; he was the blind son of a blind father, which mad…
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