30 And behold, there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they[a] heard that Jesus was passing by, they called out, saying, “Lord, have mercy on us,[b] Son of David!” 31 And the crowd rebuked them so that they would be quiet. But they called out all the more, saying, “Lord, have mercy on us,[c] Son of David!” 32 And Jesus stopped,[d] called them, and said, “What do you want me to do for you?”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:30 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 20:30 Some manuscripts have “Have mercy on us, Lord”
  3. Matthew 20:31 Some manuscripts have “Have mercy on us, Lord”
  4. Matthew 20:32 *Here the participle (“stopped”) is translated as a finite verb because of English style