ContradictionsReading order 387Bible context 2 min read
How many blind men were healed near Jericho?
Matthew presents two blind petitioners, while Mark and Luke focus on a single beggar in the Jericho episode.
- Textual conflict
- Weak tension
- The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
Naming one blind petitioner does not exclude Matthew's second; approach versus departure adds a setting tension without proving all excerpts describe one moment.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Matthew describes two blind men calling to Jesus
And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.
Matthew 20:30
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Matthew 20
Mark and Luke introduce one blind beggar
And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimeus, the son of Timeus, sat by the highway side begging.
Mark 10:46
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Mark 10