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Updated: May 13, 2025
Blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. Mark x. 46. The narrative of this miracle is contained in all the Synoptical Gospels, but the accounts differ in two respects as to the number of men restored to sight, and as to the scene of the miracle. Matthew tells us that there were two men healed, and agrees with Mark in placing the miracle as Jesus was leaving Jericho.
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timasus, sat by the highway side begging.
Whether Bartimaeus had a companion or not, he was obviously the chief actor and spokesman. And the whole story seems to me to lend itself to the enforcement of some very important lessons, which I will try to draw from it. I. Notice the beggar's petition and the attempts to silence it. Remember that Jesus was now on His last journey to Jerusalem.
Bartimaeus had scarcely ended speaking when Christ began. He was blind at the beginning of Christ's little sentence; he saw at the end of it. 'Go thy way; thy faith hath saved thee. The answer came instantly, and the cure was as immediate as the movement of Christ's heart in answer. I am here to proclaim the possibility of an immediate passage from darkness to light.
There is no virtue in self-denial except as it helps us to come nearer Him. IV. We must do it with quick, glad energy. Bartimaeus springs to his feet at once with a bound. So we should leap to meet Jesus, our sight-giver. How slothful and languid we often are. We do not put half as much heart into our Christian life as people do into common things.
There was another man in Jericho who stopped Christ, on that same journey; for not only the petition of Bartimaeus, but the curiosity which was more than curiosity of Zacchaeus, stopped Him, and He who stood still, though He had His face set like a flint to go to Jerusalem, because Bartimaeus cried, stood still and looked up into the sycamore tree where the publican was the best fruit that ever it bore and said, 'Zacchaeus; come down, I must abide at thy house. Why must He abide?
He that heard Bartimaeus will hear us. In like manner, may I not say that here we have an illustration of how Christ, who has so much besides to do, would suspend other work, if it were needful, in order to do what we need? As I have said, the rest had to wait. Bartimaeus stopped Christ.
Another is one Bartimaeus, from southern Jericho, whose finger tips have been his eyes, till the Lord has healed his blindness. A third has been a demoniac among the hills of the Gergesenes, and has been a wandering and truculent challenge to his times. A woman is there from Jacob's well, with Salome and Susanna and the virgin mother herself.
If there are any of you who, by reason of companions, or cares, or habits, or sorrows, or a feeble conception of your own need or a doubtful recognition of Christ's power and mercy, have been tempted to stop your supplications, do like Bartimaeus, and the more these, your enemies, seek to silence the deepest voice that is in you, the more let it speak.
Josiah Cratty, of Oak Park, has a cattery called the "Jungfrau Katterie," and her cats are remarkably beautiful. Her Bartimaeus and True Blue are magnificent white cats, sired by Mrs. Locke's Lord Gwynne. Miss L.C. Johnstone, of Chicago, has some of the handsomest cats in the country.
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