Matthew 20:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And two blind men seated by the wayside, when they had the news that Jesus was going by, gave a loud cry, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Καὶ, ἰδού, δύο τυφλοὶ καθήμενοι παρὰ τὴν ὁδόν, ἀκούσαντες ὅτι Ἰησοῦς παράγει, ἔκραξαν, λέγοντες, Ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς, Κύριε, Υἱὸς Δαυίδ.

Transliteration

And, idou, two typhloi kathēmenoi beside the hodon, having akousantes that Iēsous paragei, ekraxan, legontes, Have mercy on eleēson us, Kyrie, Huios of David.

Grammar Details

• *idou*: imperative used as interjection - behold/look
• *duo*: numeral - two
• *typhloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - blind men
• *kathēmenoi*: present participle, nominative, masculine, plural, middle - sitting
• *hodon*: accusative, feminine, singular - road/way
• *akousantes*: aorist participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having heard
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *paragei*: present, 3rd singular - passes by
• *ekraxan*: aorist, 3rd plural - cried out
• *legontes*: present participle, nominative, masculine, plural - saying
• *eleēson*: aorist imperative, 2nd singular - have mercy on
• *Kyrie*: vocative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *Huios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Son
• *David*: genitive, masculine, singular - David

Word Meanings

• *paragei*: passes by/is passing by
• *Huios David*: Son of David (Messianic title)

Referenced Verses

• Matt 22:42 : 42 What is your opinion of the Christ? whose son is he? They say to him, The Son of David.
• Matt 21:9 : 9 And those who went before him, and those who came after, gave loud cries, saying, Glory to the Son of David: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord: Glory in the highest.
• Matt 21:14 : 14 And the blind and the broken in body came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.
• Mark 10:46 : 46 And they came to Jericho: and when he was going out of Jericho, with his disciples and a great number of people, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind man, was seated by the wayside, with his hand out for money.
• Luke 4:18 : 18 The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,
• Luke 7:21 : 21 At that time, he made a number of people free from their diseases and their pains, and from evil spirits; and to others who were blind he gave back the use of their eyes.
• John 9:1-9 : 1 And when he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth? 3 Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him. 4 While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 Having said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's eyes, 7 And said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam (the sense of the name is, Sent). So he went away and, after washing, came back able to see. 8 Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people? 9 Some said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he. 10 So they said to him, How then were your eyes made open? 11 His answer was: The man who is named Jesus put earth mixed with water on my eyes, and said to me, Go and make yourself clean in Siloam: so I went away and, after washing, am now able to see. 12 And they said to him, Where is he? His answer was: I have no knowledge.
• Acts 2:30 : 30 But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,
• Rom 1:3-4 : 3 About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David, 4 But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,
• Ps 146:8 : 8 The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
• Isa 29:18 : 18 And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.
• Isa 35:5-6 : 5 Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open. 6 Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.
• Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
• Isa 42:18 : 18 Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
• Isa 59:10 : 10 We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.
• Isa 61:1-2 : 1 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again; 2 To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;
• Matt 9:27-31 : 27 And when Jesus went on from there, two blind men came after him, crying out, Have mercy on us, you Son of David. 28 And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, Have you faith that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord. 29 Then he put his hand on their eyes, saying, As your faith is, let it be done to you. 30 And their eyes were made open. And Jesus said to them sharply, Let no man have knowledge of it. 31 But they went out and gave news of him in all that land.
• Matt 12:22-23 : 22 Then they took to him one with an evil spirit, who was blind and had no power of talking: and he made him well so that he had the power of talking and seeing. 23 And all the people were surprised and said, Is not this the Son of David?
• Matt 15:22 : 22 And a woman of Canaan came out from those parts, crying and saying, Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.