And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him. The pity-driven touch and the immediate sight-restoration are the immediate answer to the faith that persisted through the crowd's rebuke. The followed him after receiving their sight communicates the natural response to encountering Jesus: those who receive sight from him become his followers. The two blind men who became disciples are the chapter's final image of the kingdom's inversion: the blind who see (and follow) contrast with the sighted disciples who ask for status.

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