Matthew 14:15

14:15 When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, “This is an isolated place ¹  and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

Mark 10:47-48

10:47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, ²  “Jesus, Son of David, ³  have mercy ⁴  on me!” 10:48 Many scolded ⁵  him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

¹ tn Or “a desert” (meaning a deserted or desolate area with sparse vegetation).

² tn Grk “to shout and to say.” The infinitive λέγειν (legein) is redundant here and has not been translated.

³ 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]).

⁴ sn Have mercy on me is a request for healing. It is not owed the man. He simply asks for God’s kind grace.

⁵ tn Or “rebuked.” The crowd’s view was that surely Jesus would not be bothered with someone as unimportant as a blind beggar.