As he was come nigh unto Jericho. — Better, as He was coming nigh. See Notes on Matthew 20:29; Mark 10:46. St. Luke, for some reason, passes over the ambitious request of the sons of Zebedee. He agrees with St. Mark, and not with St. Matthew, as to there being one blind man, and as to the miracle being wrought on the approach to Jericho, not on the departure from it.

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