Luke 18:36

36 et cum audiret turbam praetereuntem interrogabat quid hoc esset

Luke 18:36 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 18:36

And hearing the multitude pass by
Their "voice", as the Syriac version expresses it; the noise of their feet, and especially of their tongues;

he asked what it meant?
what was the meaning of this concourse of people, and of this clamorous noise; or, as the Syriac version reads, "who it should be?" what person of note was passing by, that there was such a multitude after him? to which the answer best agrees.

Luke 18:36 In-Context

34 et ipsi nihil horum intellexerunt et erat verbum istud absconditum ab eis et non intellegebant quae dicebantur

35 factum est autem cum adpropinquaret Hiericho caecus quidam sedebat secus viam mendicans

36 et cum audiret turbam praetereuntem interrogabat quid hoc esset

37 dixerunt autem ei quod Iesus Nazarenus transiret

38 et clamavit dicens Iesu Fili David miserere mei