Mark_ Miracles and Mercy 12-Wee - Brian Simmons

Jesus longs for you to experience all that God’s kingdom-realm
has to offer in all of its fullness. Are you receiving this
kingdom like a teachable child or like a rich person who seeks
to justify his or her religious activity? Ask God to help you
humbly receive his kingdom with open, outstretched hands.
1 The Greek transliteration of the blind man’s name is “Bar-Timaeus,
son of Timaeus.” The word Bar-Timaeus actually means “son of
Timaeus.” So the blind man was named after his father, Timaeus, but
we don’t know the son’s actual name from this. The ancient Aramaic
account of the blind man’s name is Timai, and Aramaic was a common
language spoken among the Hebrews of Jesus’ day in Palestine. The
Aramaic Timai is likely correct about the blind man’s name, especially
given the fact that this man cries out to Jesus using an Aramaic title of
respect—”Rabbi” (Master-Teacher). In his hour of greatest need and
hope, he speaks to Jesus in Aramaic, not Greek, indicating that his
primary language was most likely Aramaic, so likely his name was
Aramaic too. Now Timai means “highly prized (esteemed).” In other
words, although Timai was blind, he was clearly highly prized in the
eyes of Jesus, who stopped to heal him.