Christ Healing Blind. Each of the three Synoptic Gospels tells of Jesus healing the blind near Jericho, as he passed through that town, shortly before his passion.
The Gospel of Mark tells of the cure of a man named Bartimaeus healed by Jesus as he is leaving Jericho. The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke include different versions of this story.
The earliest version is in the Gospel of Mark which tells of the cure of a blind beggar named Bartimaeus. He is one of the few recipients of healing whose names evangelists let us know.
Theologian Oleg Molenko attributes this detail to the fact that these people had been definitely saved and served the Church in their lifetime unlike those whose names evangelists did not disclose. For example, in another instance of a man who had been an invalid for 38 years who waited for the movement of the water in a pool in the Gospel of John and whose name remains unknown, Jesus cures that sick person and warns him about the consequences in case he reverts to doing things that brought him to the condition of infirmity of which he's now restored, as yet he might have had inclination towards sin.
Unlike him, healed Bartimaeus follows Jesus immediately, which led the evangelist Mark to include his name in the narrative. Bartimaeus also teaches us a Jesus Prayer, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!, and, its result, an acquiring spiritual eyesight, the sign of wh
The Gospel of Mark tells of the cure of a man named Bartimaeus healed by Jesus as he is leaving Jericho. The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke include different versions of this story.
The earliest version is in the Gospel of Mark which tells of the cure of a blind beggar named Bartimaeus. He is one of the few recipients of healing whose names evangelists let us know.
Theologian Oleg Molenko attributes this detail to the fact that these people had been definitely saved and served the Church in their lifetime unlike those whose names evangelists did not disclose. For example, in another instance of a man who had been an invalid for 38 years who waited for the movement of the water in a pool in the Gospel of John and whose name remains unknown, Jesus cures that sick person and warns him about the consequences in case he reverts to doing things that brought him to the condition of infirmity of which he's now restored, as yet he might have had inclination towards sin.
Unlike him, healed Bartimaeus follows Jesus immediately, which led the evangelist Mark to include his name in the narrative. Bartimaeus also teaches us a Jesus Prayer, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!, and, its result, an acquiring spiritual eyesight, the sign of wh
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