Discovery BoxMatthew 9:27 
Context9:27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, 1 “Have mercy 2 on us, Son of David!” 3
Matthew 12:15
Context12:15 Now when Jesus learned of this, he went away from there. Great 4 crowds 5 followed him, and he healed them all.
Matthew 27:55
Context27:55 Many 6 women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support 7 were also there, watching from a distance.
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 καί (kai) has not been translated.
5 tc א B pc lat read only πολλοί (polloi, “many”) here, the first hand of N reads ὄχλοι (ocloi, “crowds”), while virtually all the rest of the witnesses have ὄχλοι πολλοί (ocloi polloi, “great crowds”). In spite of the good quality of both א and B (especially in combination), and the testimony of the Latin witnesses, the longer reading is most likely correct; the shorter readings were probably due to homoioteleuton.
6 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
7 tn Grk “and ministered to him.”
sn Cf. Luke 8:3.
