Mark 10:47

10:47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Mark 10:4

10:4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”

tn Grk “to shout and to say.” The infinitive λέγειν (legein) is redundant here and has not been translated.

sn Jesus was more than a Nazarene to this blind person, who saw quite well that Jesus was Son of David. There was a tradition in Judaism that the Son of David (Solomon) had great powers of healing (Josephus, Ant. 8.2.5 [8.42-49]).

sn Have mercy on me is a request for healing. It is not owed the man. He simply asks for God’s kind grace.

tn Grk “to divorce.” The pronoun has been supplied in the translation for clarity.