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MATTHEW 9:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 9:26Matt 9:28
“And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.”
And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, Have mercy on us, Son of David. Two blind men call out Son of David — the royal messianic title that the demons recognized (8:29 as Son of God) and that the Magi sought in the genealogy. The mercy they cry for is the mercy of the king for the suppliant — the mercy that belongs to David's line by covenant promise (Psalm 89:24, 28). The following while blind is its own kind of faith: they cannot see where he is going but they follow the sound of his movement. The son of David who was promised to heal the blind (Isaiah 35:5; 42:7) is being addressed by the very people his coming was supposed to benefit.

Church Fathers on Matthew 9:27

The miracles that had gone before of the ruler’s d aug hter, and the woman with the issue of blood, are now followed by that of two blind men, that what death and disease had there witnessed, that blindness might now witness. 'And as Jesus passed thence,' that is, from the ruler’s house, there followed him two blind men, crying, and saying, Have mercy on us, thou Son of David.'

Jerome · 4th century

Here is no small charge against the Jews, that these men, having lost their sight, yet believe by means of their hearing only; while they who had sight, would not believe the miracles that were done. Observe their eagerness; they do not simply come to Him, but with crying, and asking for nothing but mercy; they call Him Son of David because that seemed to be a name of honour.

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom., xxxii

Rightly they call Him Son of David, because the Virgin Mary was of the line of David.

Remigius · 9th century
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