sinners” (7:34; cf. 5:30), but (ii) that it is humanly impossible for the rich to enter the kingdom of God (18:25; cf. v 23). 3 Luke was responsible at 9:9 for καί ἐζήτει ἰδεῖν αὐτόν [i.e., τὸν Ἰησοῦν] (lit. “and he was seeking to see him”), but that text may be inspired by this. Though there is no reason to think that this man’s desire to see Jesus expresses the same sense of need, the crowd here constitutes the same barrier to access to Jesus that they were initially for the blind man