Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me is Dr. Michael Barber,

who is a professor of scripture here at the August Institute. And we're going to continue our Bible study, our ongoing Bible study that we do each week now on the Gospel of Matthew.

And so last time we left off in the midst of Matthew chapter 9, and we're going to pick up at Matthew chapter 9, verse 27.

Feel free to grab a Bible so you can easily follow along with us. We'll mention what passage we're going to pick up at Matthew chapter 9 verse 27. Feel free to grab a Bible so you can easily follow along with us.

We'll mention what passage we're at, which is, of course, chapter 9 verse 27 right now,

the healing of two blind men.

And this comes in the section that we talked about before of Matthew chapters 8 and 9,

where Jesus does 10 mighty deeds, what we would call miracles today.

And these 10 mighty deeds express Jesus's authority.

They show the kind of authority that Jesus has.

So as we walk through these 10 mighty deeds, we keep seeing in different angles and views,

Jesus' authority illustrated and manifest for us.

And then, of course, that's going to prepare us for the discourse that follows in Matthew chapter 10, where Jesus will give a teaching, but that teaching is based on the authority

that he demonstrates in chapter 8 and 9.

So we kind of move from narrative to discourse or basically speech and then again we'll get another

narrative thread and then another speech so Matthew's gospel is punctuated by that kind of two-step

narrative discourse or in the simple word discourse simply means a speech a long speech and so now

Michael let's just dive in Jesus heals two blind men here

in Matthew chapter 9, verse 27. You want to pick this off? Yes, let's take a look at verse 27.

As Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, have mercy on us,

Son of David. Now this is a really important note in Matthew's

gospel. He's got this beautiful symphony, right? This beautiful orchestral theme of the fulfillment of

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