The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

BLIND BARTIM/EUS
The Importunate Prayer for
Light
"And Jesus said unto him: What wilt thou that I should
do unto thee The blind man said unto Him : Lord, that I
should receive my sight. And Jesus said : Thy
made thee whole." Mark x. 51, 52.
faith hath
NOTHING could be more common-place than the
beginning of this story. A blind man sitting by the
roadside begging. We see that every week ;
we
might see it every day. But we do not see these
men as Christ saw them. Blind men seem to have
had a peculiar power in drawing out His sympathies.
These poor creatures from whom the light and
beauty were always hidden fetched His pity at once.
And they affected Him the more because they
reminded Him of His greater work. They were a
type of blind humanity. All men had the darkening
veil upon their eyes, and He had come to call them
from darkness unto light.
Jesus was passing by, with a confused and noisy
crowd of people following and surrounding, when suddenly,
above the tramp of feet
this man's piteous wail for mercy rose.
and hubbub of voices,
It sounded like
the ordinary beggar's cry for alms, and the people,
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