Mark 10:46-52

Living Bible

⁴⁶ And so they reached Jericho. Later, as they left town, a great crowd was following. Now it happened that a blind beggar named Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus) was sitting beside the road as Jesus was going by.

⁴⁷ When Bartimaeus heard that Jesus from Nazareth was near, he began to shout out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

⁴⁸ “Shut up!” some of the people yelled at him.

But he only shouted the louder, again and again, “O Son of David, have mercy on me!”

⁴⁹ When Jesus heard him, he stopped there in the road and said, “Tell him to come here.”

So they called the blind man. “You lucky fellow,”^[a] they said, “come on, he’s calling you!” ⁵⁰ Bartimaeus yanked off his old coat and flung it aside, jumped up and came to Jesus.

⁵¹ “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked.

“O Teacher,” the blind man said, “I want to see!”

⁵² And Jesus said to him, “All right, it’s done.^[b] Your faith has healed you.”

And instantly the blind man could see and followed Jesus down the road!