<p>18:36 <i>And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant</i>- The idea is not 'Whatever is going on?' but rather is he enquiring of the significance of all this. There is a similar incident in Mt. 21:10,11, where part of the crowd ask: &quot;Who is this?&quot;, and the other part answer back: &quot;This is Jesus the prophet&quot;. They were trying to echo Ps. 24:8,10: &quot;Who is this king of glory?&quot; is answered by &quot;The Lord strong and mighty&quot;. This was understood as how the crowds were to call to each other in the Messianic procession. Perhaps this man was attempting to have a part in what he believed to be a Messianic event; in this case, he would have accepted that the Lord was Messiah. He was inspired by previous healings of blind men in Mt. 9:27, who would have surely spread the message that they considered their healer to be Jesus the Messiah.</p>