Bartimaeus
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BARTIMÆUS (Mar_10:45).A blind man whom Jesus, on His way to the last Passover, healed at the gate of Jerichoas He was leaving the city, according to Mt. (Mat_20:29) and Mk. (Mar_10:46), who condense the story of what befell at Jericho; as He approached, according to Lk. (Luk_18:35), whose fuller narrative preserves the proper order of events. Bartimæus is not a name but a patronymic (cf. Bartholomew), and St. Mark, for the benefit of his Gentile readers, gives the interpretation of it, the son of Timæus.
David Smith.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("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 (Mar_10:46); Luke (Luk_18:35; Luk_19:1; Luk_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 He was entering Jericho, and renewed his petition the next day, as Jesus was leaving Jericho. Eliciting, as He was wont, first of all from the blind man the expression of his want, "What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?" Christ next grants his prayer, and praises his faith "Receive thy sight; thy faith hath saved thee." Matthew (Mat_20:29-34) describes it, as Jesus was going from Jericho; and mentions two blind men.
Probably Bartimaeus, after applying on the day of Jesus' entry into Jericho, was joined by the second blind man while Jesus was passing the night with Zacchaeus; so both shared in the cure on Christ's leaving Jericho. Bartimaeus, being the more prominent, is alone mentioned by Mark and Luke; just as they mention only the colt, Matthew both the donkey (the mother) and the colt; Luke (Luk_24:4) the two angels, Matthew and Mark the one alone who spoke. Seeming discrepancies establish the independence of the witnesses and the absence of collusion. Substantial agreement of many witnesses, amidst circumstantial variety, is the strongest proof of truth. Modes of reconciling seeming discrepancies may not be the true ones, but they at least prove the discrepancies not to be irreconcilable and that they result only from our ignorance of all the facts of each case.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Bartimae'us. (son of Timeus). A blind beggar of Jericho who, Mar_10:46, ff., sat by the wayside begging, as our Lord passed out of Jericho, on his last journey to Jerusalem.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
bar-ti-mē?us (Βαρτίμαιος, Bartı́maios): 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 (Mar_10:46-52) Bartimeus is given as the name of a blind beggar, whose eyes Jesus Christ opened as He went out from Jericho on His last journey to Jerusalem. An almost identical account is given by Lk (Luk_18:35-43), except that the incident occurred ?as he drew nigh unto Jericho,? and the name of the blind man is not given. Again, according to Mt (Mat_20:29-34), ?as they went out from Jericho? (like Mk) two blind men (unlike Mk and Lk) receive their sight. It is not absolutely impossible that two or even three events are recorded, but so close is the similarity of the three accounts that it is highly improbable. Regarding them as referring to the same event, it is easy to understand how the discrepancies arose in the passage of the story from mouth to mouth. The main incident is clear enough, and on purely historical grounds, the miracle cannot be denied. The discrepancies themselves are evidence of the wide currency of the story before our Gospels assumed their present form. It is only a most mechanical theory of inspiration that would demand their harmonization.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Bartimaeus
(Βαρτιμαῖος, for the Chald. בִּר טַמָּאַי, an son of Timmai), one of the two blind beggars of Jericho who (Mar_10:46 sq.; comp. Mat_20:30) sat by the wayside begging as our Lord passed out of Jericho on his last journey to Jerusalem, A.D. 29. Notwithstanding that many charged him to be quiet, he continued crying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me! Being called, and his blindness miraculously cured, on the ground of his faith, by Jesus, he became thenceforward a believer.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
David Smith.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("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 (Mar_10:46); Luke (Luk_18:35; Luk_19:1; Luk_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 He was entering Jericho, and renewed his petition the next day, as Jesus was leaving Jericho. Eliciting, as He was wont, first of all from the blind man the expression of his want, "What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?" Christ next grants his prayer, and praises his faith "Receive thy sight; thy faith hath saved thee." Matthew (Mat_20:29-34) describes it, as Jesus was going from Jericho; and mentions two blind men.
Probably Bartimaeus, after applying on the day of Jesus' entry into Jericho, was joined by the second blind man while Jesus was passing the night with Zacchaeus; so both shared in the cure on Christ's leaving Jericho. Bartimaeus, being the more prominent, is alone mentioned by Mark and Luke; just as they mention only the colt, Matthew both the donkey (the mother) and the colt; Luke (Luk_24:4) the two angels, Matthew and Mark the one alone who spoke. Seeming discrepancies establish the independence of the witnesses and the absence of collusion. Substantial agreement of many witnesses, amidst circumstantial variety, is the strongest proof of truth. Modes of reconciling seeming discrepancies may not be the true ones, but they at least prove the discrepancies not to be irreconcilable and that they result only from our ignorance of all the facts of each case.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Bartimae'us. (son of Timeus). A blind beggar of Jericho who, Mar_10:46, ff., sat by the wayside begging, as our Lord passed out of Jericho, on his last journey to Jerusalem.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
bar-ti-mē?us (Βαρτίμαιος, Bartı́maios): 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 (Mar_10:46-52) Bartimeus is given as the name of a blind beggar, whose eyes Jesus Christ opened as He went out from Jericho on His last journey to Jerusalem. An almost identical account is given by Lk (Luk_18:35-43), except that the incident occurred ?as he drew nigh unto Jericho,? and the name of the blind man is not given. Again, according to Mt (Mat_20:29-34), ?as they went out from Jericho? (like Mk) two blind men (unlike Mk and Lk) receive their sight. It is not absolutely impossible that two or even three events are recorded, but so close is the similarity of the three accounts that it is highly improbable. Regarding them as referring to the same event, it is easy to understand how the discrepancies arose in the passage of the story from mouth to mouth. The main incident is clear enough, and on purely historical grounds, the miracle cannot be denied. The discrepancies themselves are evidence of the wide currency of the story before our Gospels assumed their present form. It is only a most mechanical theory of inspiration that would demand their harmonization.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Bartimaeus
(Βαρτιμαῖος, for the Chald. בִּר טַמָּאַי, an son of Timmai), one of the two blind beggars of Jericho who (Mar_10:46 sq.; comp. Mat_20:30) sat by the wayside begging as our Lord passed out of Jericho on his last journey to Jerusalem, A.D. 29. Notwithstanding that many charged him to be quiet, he continued crying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me! Being called, and his blindness miraculously cured, on the ground of his faith, by Jesus, he became thenceforward a believer.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
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