Matthew 9:27-31 - Exposition

Two blind men restored to sight. Matthew only. (For the connexion, vide verse 18, note.) Weiss compares the incident at Jericho, Matthew 20:29-34 . The points of similarity are:

The points of difference :

From a consideration of these details, the conclusion seems inevitable that we have, in fact, narratives of two distinct occurrences, but it is quite consistent with tiffs conclusion to suppose that during the oral transmission of the narratives a certain amount of assimilation took place. Upon this supposition, it further appears probable that, as the narrative in Matthew 20:1-34 . was the better known, for it was in the Petrine cycle, our narrative became assimilated to it rather than the reverse. On the other hand, the number recorded in Matthew 20:1-34 . looks much like an assimilation to that of our incident (cf. the notes on the section Matthew 8:28-34 , Matthew 8:31 , and the section Matthew 8:32-34 ).