Bartimaeus
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 Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging....
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Each of the three synoptic gospels tells of Jesus healing the
blind near Jericho, as he passed through that town, shortly
before his passion.
Mark 10:46-52 tells only of a man named Bartimaeus (literally
"Son of Timaeus") being present, as Jesus left Jericho, making
him one of the few named people to be miraculously cured by
Jesus. Matthew 20:...
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bar-ti-me'-us (Bartimaios): A hybrid word from Aramaic bar =
"son," and Greek timaios = "honorable." For the
improbability of the derivation from bar-tim'ai = "son of
the unclean," and of the allegorical meaning = the Gentiles
or spiritually blind, see Schmiedel in Encyclopedia Biblica.
In Mk (10:46-52) Bartimeus is given as the name of a blin...
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A blind man
Mr 10:46-52; Mt 20:29-34; Lu 18:35-43...
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(son of Timeus), a blind beggar of Jericho who, Mr 10:46 ff.,
sat by the wayside begging as our Lord passed out of Jericho
on his last journey to Jerusalem....
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son of Timaeus, one of the two blind beggars of Jericho (Mark
10:46; Matt. 20:30). His blindness was miraculously
cured on the
ground of his faith....
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("son of Timaeus or Timai".) A blind beggar of Jericho, who
had his sight restored by Christ as He was going out of the
town (Mark 10:46); Luke (Luke 18:35; Luke 19:1; Luke 19:5)
describes the cure as Christ was entering Jericho the day
before. Probably the beggar, with the persevering faith
which characterized him, applied to Jesus first as H...
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