Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means son of Timaeus), was sitting by the roadside begging — the naming of Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus) is the only healed person named after the fact in Mark's Gospel (besides those named before their healing like Jairus). The naming in the tradition suggests he became known in the early church — possibly the same Bartimaeus who became a follower and was known to Mark's Roman community. He is begging by the roadside — the margins of the road, the social margins of life.

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