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Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
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Faith That Saves
Jesus says, "Your faith has made you whole." Commentators like John Calvin and John Gill explain that this faith was not merely a hope for healing, but a specific trust in Jesus as the promised Messiah. They argue the word for "made whole" also means "saved," indicating that Bartimaeus received not only physical sight but also spiritual salvation, illustrating the principle of justification by faith.
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Followed (ηκολουθε). Imperfect tense picturing joyful Bartimaeus as he followed the caravan of Jesus into the new Jericho.
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19th Century
Anglican
Followed Jesus in the way.—We may reasonably infer from this that Bartimaeus was one of those who went up with the travelling company to J…
Baptist
And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
Another of these records is in John 9:1-7.
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Before Jesus healed the beggar, he asked him a question to stimulate faith. Having done that, without any overt action or healing word on Jesus’ pa…
16th Century
Protestant
Your faith has saved you. By the word faith is meant not only a confident hope of recovering sight, but a loftier conviction, whi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Jesus said to him, go your way The Syriac version reads, it, (azx), "see"; receive y…
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Presbyterian
Bartimaeus had heard of Jesus and his miracles, and learning that he was passing by, hoped to recover his eyesight. In coming to Christ for help an…