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MARK 10:46 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Mark 10:45Mark 10:47
“And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimeus, the son of Timeus, sat by the highway side begging.”
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.

Church Fathers on Mark 10:46

The name of the city agrees with the approaching Passion of our Lord; for it is said, 'And they came to Jericho.' Jericho means moon or anathema; but the failing of the flesh of Christ is the preparation of the heavenly Jerusalem.

Jerome · 4th century

Matthew says, that there were two blind men sitting by the wayside, who cried to the Lord, and received their sight; but Luke relates that one blind man was enlightened by Him, with a like order of circumstances, as He was going into Jericho; where no one, at least no wise man, will suppose that the Evangelists wrote things contrary to one another, but that one wrote more fully, what another has left out.

Bede · 8th century

It is for this reason that Mark wished to relate his case alone, because his receiving his sight had gained for the miracle a fame, illustrious in proportion to the extent of the knowledge of his affliction. But although Luke relates a miracle done entirely in the same way, nevertheless we must understand that a similar miracle was wrought on another blind man, and a similar method of the same miracle.

Augustine · 4th century · de Con. Evan., ii, 65
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