Discovery BoxMatthew 9:27 
ContextHealing 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
Context12:7 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
Context18:33 Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?’
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.
