I recently preached on a passage from Luke that has a lot in common with the healing story that opens Matthew chapter 8.
Neither passage names the individual being healed. Rather, each is identified by their lack; by the thing they most desire. In the Luke passage (18:35 ff) he is simply a ‘blind beggar’, and here in Matthew the individual is known only…
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