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See this passage explained in the notes at Mat 20:29-34. Mar 10:46 Blind Bartimeus - Matthew says there were two. Mark mentions but one, though he does not deny that there was another. He mentions…
Adam Clarke
And he, casting away his garment - He cast off his outward covering, a blanket, or loose piece of cloth, the usual upper garment of an Asiatic mendicant, which kept him from the inclemency of the…
This passage of story agrees with that, Mat 20:29, etc. Only that there were told of two blind men; here, and Luk 18:35, only of one: but if there were two, there was one. This one is named here,…
Cambridge Bible
casting away his garment i. e. his abba, or upper garment, he rose, or, according to a better reading, leaped up. "Sturtinge cam to him," Wyclif.