Jerome

But there were also two blind men by the road. He calls blind those who could not yet speak: In your light we will see light (Ps. XXXV, 10). Along the road, because they seemed to have knowledge of the Law: but they were ignorant of the way, which is Christ: whom most understand as the Pharisees and Sadducees, and others as both the people, the old Testament and the New: because one, following the written Law, was blind without Christ. …

Commentary on Matthew ↗

Gregory the Dialogist

This blind man is rightly described as sitting beside the road and being a beggar; for the Truth himself says: "I am the way." Therefore whoever does not know the brightness of eternal light is blind; but if he already believes in the Redeemer, he sits beside the way; if, however, he already believes but neglects to ask that he might receive eternal light, and ceases from prayers, the blind man indeed sits beside the way but does not beg at all. …

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 2 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

There follows the devotion of the blind men: and behold two blind men, etc. And first, the devotion is set forth; secondly, the constancy, at and the multitude rebuked them that they should hold their peace. But here there is a question, because in Luke 18:35 it is read that there was only one blind man who met him, and here it says there were two, who met the Lord as he was leaving Jericho. But Mark agrees with Luke that there was only one, and thus Matthew disagrees with both. …

Commentary on Matthew ↗