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 12:7

12:7 If ⁴  you had known what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ ⁵  you would not have condemned the innocent.

Matthew 18:33

18:33 Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?’

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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 Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁵ sn A quotation from Hos 6:6 (see also Matt 9:13).