Matthew 9:27

Healing the Blind and Mute

9:27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, ¹  “Have mercy ²  on us, Son of David!” ³ 

Matthew 10:10

10:10 no bag ⁴  for the journey, or an extra tunic, ⁵  or sandals or staff, ⁶  for the worker deserves his provisions.

Matthew 14:17

14:17 They ⁷  said to him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.”

Matthew 18:20

18:20 For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”

Matthew 19:6

19:6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Matthew 26:37

26:37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became anguished and distressed.

¹ tn Grk “shouting, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

² sn Have mercy on us is a request for healing. It is not owed to the men. They simply ask for God’s kind grace.

³ sn 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 tn Or “no traveler’s bag”; or possibly “no beggar’s bag” (L&N 6.145; BDAG 811 s.v. πήρα).

⁵ tn Grk “two tunics.” See the note on the word “tunic” in Matt 5:40.

⁶ sn Mark 6:8 allows one staff. It might be that Matthew’s summary (cf. Luke 9:3) means not taking an extra staff or that the expression is merely rhetorical for “traveling light” which has been rendered in two slightly different ways.

⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.