The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus

So that’s why when you see in scripture, you see they went up to Jerusalem, or they went down from Jerusalem. It’s not talking about north-south, it’s talking about elevation, right? So they went up, you would travel from Jericho up through the hills to get to Jerusalem, and that’s the Lord’s final destination. And you see during the trip, he’s talking to the disciples. That’s when we’re seeing, for instance, verse number 18, if you look at that, Matthew 20 18, behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be betrayed unto the chief priest and unto the scribes.

Let me ask you a question. If you knew that the will of God was hard, think about what the Lord Jesus knows at this moment. He knows he’s leaving Galilee for the last time. He knows he’s going up to Jerusalem, and for what reason? He knows. He’s telling his disciples in advance. He knows exactly what is going to happen. There’s actually, not here, but in another reference, there’s actually a place where you can actually see the scripture describe him as zealously going to Jerusalem.

He set his face. He was intent. Nothing, absolutely nothing was going to deter him from getting to that cross. That is just wild to me. I wonder if the Lord let me know that in front of me was a path in his will that was very hard. I wonder if I would set my heart with great intention and zeal like our Lord did, where nothing would deter me from it no matter what.

You just finished in the year in review talking about our missions program. Sometimes that’s what’s in front of some missionaries. I don’t think it was in front of us. We felt pretty safe and comfortable, but many missionaries are looking at a very, very difficult road ahead of them when they go to the field. And yet they go, and nothing will deter them. That is not by any means to toot their horn.

They have nothing to glory of. That is nothing but the grace of God at work in their life. We should all have that heart and mind toward the will of God. Lord, if you will help me, I will do the will of God no matter what. And so that’s what the Lord is doing. He’s informing the disciples about what’s going to happen to him as he goes.

He’s teaching them in various ways. Dealing with problems during their journey, and we see that all throughout this passage. Now let’s start in verse 29. And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. And behold, two men sitting by the wayside, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace.

But they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. And Jesus stood still and called them and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you? And they say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight and they followed him. Would you pray with me this morning?

Lord, give us as these men, give us eyes to see. Lord, give us a heart that’s inclined to your word, to your will. And I pray, Lord, that as we look at these truths found in your word, that you would truly stir us up, remind us of your great work among us and in us. We pray that you would bless your word to our hearts. Lord, help me to say everything that you want me to say and not say anything that you do not want me to say.

Bless our time in your word, we pray. And Lord, for 2025, we just want to take a minute to say thank you for what you’ve done. Thank you for working in hearts. Thank you for giving us your grace to serve. Thank you for the fruit and the encouragement. Lord, thank you for all of these things. In Jesus’ name, amen. Now if you would go to Mark chapter 10, and we will, you can say goodbye to Matthew.

We’re going to go to Mark and stay there. Mark 10 starting in verse number 46. Now Matthew tells us that there were two blind men that Jesus met. Mark and Luke say that there was only one. Actually, it doesn’t say there was only one. It just says there was one. Which if you have two, you also have one. Right? Do I got my logic right on that, those of you intelligent among us?

Verse 46 says this, and they came to Jericho, and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples, a great number of people, and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. So this is blind Bartimaeus. We don’t know why his name is given. That’s kind of an unusual thing. Most of the miracles, no name is ever mentioned.

My personal opinion, the Bible doesn’t say, but this is my theory. My theory is that Bartimaeus was somebody that was probably known later, having been healed, following Jesus. I’m trying to be optimistic here. He followed Jesus. He became a disciple and became part of the church in Jericho, and he was well known to the church in Jericho, and so they connected him. That’s my theory. All in favor?

That’s my theory. Okay? We don’t know why his name is mentioned, but that’s what I think. The Bible says that he is blind. Of course, we know that blindness is not just a physical malady. It’s something in scripture that is where the Lord takes the physical malady and relates it to a spiritual problem, related to the eyes, related to sight. So I want to look at a few verses that deal with this, and we’ll come back to Mark in just a minute.

Look if you would at Isaiah 44. What does it mean to be spiritually blind? That’s the question I want to answer. What does it mean to be spiritually blind? If we’re going to understand the way that this story about blind Bartimaeus, how we might apply it and see the spiritual connections to it, we have to understand Bartimaeus is blind in flesh, right? But how does that relate to spiritual blindness?

What does it mean to be spiritually blind? Well, it deals primarily with our understanding. Isaiah 44 verse number 18. The Bible says this, they have not known nor understood, for he hath shut their eyes that they cannot see, and their hearts that they cannot understand. Notice that. He hath shut their eyes, and that’s the reason that they have not known nor understood. So there’s something that they should understand that’s in front of them that they’re not understanding.

How many of you can testify to the fact that spiritually speaking there have been things in your life maybe before you were a believer or even after you’ve been a believer that were right there in front of you but you missed them, you didn’t see them? That’s definitely true. Whether you’re saved or not, it’s true to some degree or another for sure for a person who’s not a believer.

Look if you would at verse number 8. The Bible says this, fear ye not, neither be afraid. Have not I told thee from that time and have declared it, ye are even my witnesses? Is there a God beside me? Yea, there is no God, I know not any. They that make a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things shall not profit, and they are their own witnesses.

They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed. So these guys would make these graven images and that’s what Isaiah 44 is talking about, how they make the graven image from a tree and the leftover shavings and parts that they couldn’t make into a graven image, they would throw in the fire and they would cook their bread and Isaiah’s kind of making fun of them. Or really it’s the Lord kind of making fun of that silliness, but they didn’t see it.

Jeung lived in an idolatrous country, I remember in our evangelism we would go by houses where Jeung lived, which is an artisan, where he would make wooden idols. This house would be, there would be wood shavings and parts of wood everywhere, I mean everywhere, it was so untidy, it was everywhere. And no doubt he took part of that and he burned it and it never occurred to them, you know why?

Blindness, no understanding. It is not that the information is not there, it is there and it is not perceived. Look at verse number 19, and none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh and eaten it, and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination, shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

It makes so much sense, right, but yet they didn’t see it. They didn’t see it. Look if you would at Matthew chapter 13. You want to get ahead, we’re going to go after that to Ephesians 4, Matthew 13 and then Ephesians 4. Matthew 13 verse 14 says this, talking about the parable of the sower, not the parable of the sower, getting ahead of myself a little bit.

Matthew 13 verse number 14, the Lord speaking says this, and in them is fulfilled the prophecy of the Messiah which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive, for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed. Remember what we talked about in the parables?

He taught in parables because seeing they see not, hearing they hear not. In other words, it was there right in front of them, but they didn’t pick up on it. Why? Blindness. It relates to understanding truth. Now note, in this passage it says they closed their eyes. You know, it’s kind of hard to see something if you close your eyes to it, yet that is one of the causes of spiritual blindness.

Look at Ephesians chapter 4, Ephesians 4 verse 17 says this, This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart. See that blindness of the heart is in this verse connected to the understanding being darkened.

things for a person to understand is that they don’t understand. It really is. I know before I got saved I was convinced that I was saved. There’s a lot of people in that condition in Greenville, South Carolina. There is nothing, listen, they live a life without any evidence of salvation whatsoever. They have no evidence of the Spirit of God in them, of Christ in them. They have no evidence of a love for righteousness whatsoever.

There’s no correction when they say, there’s no reason for them to believe that they are born again, yet you could never convince them of it. The scripture not withstanding. Their eyes are open to it, but they’re not understanding it. Their heart is darkened to that fact. And listen, that’s one of the major problems with understanding is it’s hard to know, it’s hard to understand something, to get us to understand something that we don’t understand.

But Bartimaeus was at least aware that he was blind. And that was the issue with the Pharisees. They were blind but they weren’t aware of it. Bartimaeus, physically speaking, is aware of it, is aware of it. But not only this is what blindness scripturally means, it’s the darkening of understanding of spiritual truth. Now if you would go to Romans chapter 1, where does blindness of the heart and mind come from?

Romans 1 gives us light on that subject. Romans 1 verse 20. Now just follow the language as we read this. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly, what does it say? Seen. That’s a word related to the eyes, right? Now this is not physical eyes, but well actually it involves physical eyes. Being understood, there’s that word again, we’ve seen that already.

Being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse. Because that when they, what’s the next word? Knew God. They glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened. Let me ask you a question, did these people start out blind? No. They knew God and having rejected that which God had clearly shown them, their heart went from that, their eyes being open to blind, darkened.

So their reaction to the truth directly affected their blindness. That’s what this verse is telling us. Now here’s what I want to show you. I know sometimes people describe it as we come into the world as a part of our nature, we’re blind, but this verse indicates it’s not the case. Blindness is something that happens to us. The Lord has revealed certain things to us that we can see.

That’s what Romans 1 verse 20 says. We can see it. It’s shown us clearly. And the reason why we don’t see it is because our heart goes from knowing it to being dark. Now if you would go to 2 Corinthians chapter 4, 2 Corinthians chapter 4. So we know what spiritual blindness is and we know one of the sources of spiritual blindness, that is rejection of that which God has shown a person, which causes the heart to darken, which actually causes a person to lose spiritual perception and understanding.

And we get to 2 Corinthians 4, there’s another cause of blindness, 2 Corinthians 4 and verse number 3. The Bible says this, but if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them. So they were not born this way. This is the God of this world. This is an act of Satan has darkened their understanding, has caused them to not be able to see the truth that is in front of them.

In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them. So the source of blindness can also be Satan who by means, by his various means and strategies is able to darken men’s understanding such that they don’t perceive truth that is in front of them, that they have been presented with.

In effect, just like Matthew 13, 19, he snatches the truth from their heart. That’s what he does. It says this, when anyone heareth the word of the kingdom and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the wayside. And once the mind and heart is darkened and blinded, think about it now, how does that then affect their perception of truth?

So what’s actually being described spiritually speaking in scripture for a blind person is not a person that’s born blind but a person that becomes blind. So if I started out with some knowledge that God had revealed to me and shown me and I rejected that or I was influenced by Satan because that’s a thing too, to blind me, how then is that going to affect the way I see truth in the future?

I’m not going to see it. I’m not going to understand it. The truth is, I think what we see in our world is the world is full of people whose minds are blind. That’s the work of Satan. 2 Corinthians 4, 4. That’s where I was before Christ came to me. I was blind and didn’t know where to look for him. Didn’t know there was a problem. Right?

That was all of us, right? We didn’t know that anything was wrong. We might have known, well, one thing we’re going to see in just a minute, which I call the sorrow of blindness, is the fact that he’s begging. That’s sorrowful. He had a hard life directly as a result of what? His blindness. And we as an unbeliever before we know Christ, we do experience the pain and suffering and regret and all those things that sin brings into our life but oftentimes we don’t know where to look.

We don’t know what’s wrong. We don’t know how to fix it. Right? We don’t know where Jesus is. We don’t know that we need him. Our understanding is dull and darkened as a result of our previous rejection of truth or as a result of Satanic work. To take the word out of our heart. To blind us to it. Bartimaeus was begging. He was poor. I thought about Revelation 3, 17 to the church of Laodicea.

The Lord says this, because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing. And here, listen now, knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor beggar and blind and naked? They were blind. And they were poor like Bartimaeus. Now go back to Mark. So think about the condition of Bartimaeus in Mark 10. He’s blind. I know I’m using this as an illustration.

I know he’s blind physically. He might have been born that way. We don’t know. But the scriptural application or the scriptural picture here is spiritual blindness. Bartimaeus could not come to Jesus because he couldn’t see Jesus. He didn’t know where Jesus was or how to approach him. And so Jesus approached Bartimaeus. And that’s what Jesus does with people who are blind spiritually. He comes near. You see Bartimaeus, he’s asking in chapter 10 verse 47, and when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, Jesus, thou son of David, had mercy on me.

I want you to see something. The only time, I don’t think this is necessarily the only time Jesus came to Jericho because it was along the route from Galilee to Jerusalem. But this is the only time recorded in scripture where Jesus went to Jericho. So Bartimaeus has been here. I guess he lives here. However long he’s been here, however long he’s been blind, he doesn’t know where to go, can’t get to Jesus, and so Jesus comes to him.

That’s basically what you... Of course the Lord knew blind Bartimaeus was there. He’s very God. And so Jesus approaches the blind who don’t know what they don’t know and don’t understand what they don’t understand. The Lord comes near. You see the fact of the nearness of the Lord Jesus to this man shows that Jesus is reaching out to him. He is initiating this thing. And what happens after this is going to be a function of how he responds to it.

He’s like, ah, Jesus can’t help me. Well, that’s the end of that. And many people in Israel, that’s what happened to them. The Lord is always the initiator of salvation, not just in the matter of the gospel itself, Christ coming into the world and dying for sinners, but also as it relates to an individual salvation, he is always the initiator. If the Lord didn’t initiate, all of us would continue in our blindness, go straight to hell.

It’s true. Every one of us. But he doesn’t. He comes near. He uses a lot of means and ways. He uses other people. He causes our ears to hear things, right? Because remember, he’s blind, but he’s got ears and he heard stuff, right? He heard things. He doesn’t know exactly what’s going on. But he does hear some things. And the reason he hears is because Jesus has approached.

And so what does he do? He starts crying out. He starts seeking Jesus. Does he know exactly what’s going on? He doesn’t know where Jesus, there’s a lot of things he doesn’t know, but he is responding to the news he’s been given. Isaiah 55, six says this, seek ye the Lord while he may be found. ye upon him. That’s what he’s doing. While he is near. Jesus came near as an act of compassion and grace to this blind man.

It might have been the only time he would come near. Again, this is the only mention of Jericho, that Jesus visited Jericho. So Bartimaeus heard about Jesus kind of from a distance, but it was impersonal. This is important. I want you to get this. Bartimaeus heard about Jesus, but he heard about it kind of in an impersonal way. Many of you came to the Lord Jesus Christ and your initial interaction with Christ was kind of at a distance.

You heard things. You knew about people who might have gotten saved or something like that. It’s kind of at a distance. It didn’t deal with you as an individual. It dealt with maybe other people you heard about or something like that. And that’s where Bartimaeus is. He’s heard about Jesus. But having heard, he starts seeking him. And he’s not seeking him because he’s a great man. No, he’s seeking him because the Lord’s coming near.

You see, the Lord initiated it. And so Bartimaeus starts crying out. Look at verse 48. And many charged him that he should hold his peace, but he cried the more a great deal. Thou son of David, had mercy on me. Bartimaeus faced resistance. Mark 4.17 says this, speaking of the parable of the sower, we’ve already cited it. And these have no root in themselves and so endure but for a time.

Many people never get past this point. They hear about Jesus a little bit and they start to really kind of cry out to him. They start to kind of investigate, seek him a little bit in whatever way they know how, kind of rooting around for the Lord Jesus. After all, they’re blind. And someone comes along and discourages it. Someone comes along and tries to get him to calm down or ridicules them in some way.

And this is before they even get to Christ. This happens all the time. I’ve seen it with my own eyes many, many, many times. They don’t even get to the threshold of the door. That’s all a satanic plan. If the blindness can’t keep you in the dark, the persecution will keep you from coming to the door. There’s a, listen, I’m speaking about real life here. There are many people that at this moment are not on their way to heaven out of fear of what someone might think of them if they seek the Lord really to find out how to be saved.

There are many, many people like that. They’re afraid of the ridicule and persecution. They’re afraid of men. And listen, their eternity is hanging in the balance. But this man, Bartimaeus, set forth for us as a good example, he cried out. And even though, stop, be quiet, he isn’t listening to you, cries out even more because he’s intent, he’s serious. His blindness, he’s done. The crying out itself is the, if you could say, the roots or the sprouts of faith that are starting to come up in his heart.

Then you go to verse number 49. And Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man, saying unto him, be of good comfort, rise, he calleth for thee. Look at the progress here. And this perfectly relates to someone who’s a believer who comes to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord approaches them. They’re blind. They don’t know what’s going on. They don’t know what they don’t know, don’t understand what they don’t understand.

They don’t know what they need. And then Jesus approaches them because he always does that. And I think the Lord approaches a lot more people than respond to him for sure. So he approaches them and they start to seek him because he came to them. They start kind of seeking after him, calling out to him, but still don’t know the whole story. And then one day, Jesus stops and looks at that one guy and says, come.

It’s no longer general anymore, is it? It’s no longer corporate. It’s no longer hearsay. It’s now personal and individual. The Lord is calling to a man, to a woman, to a child. He’s calling to them individually. And this is what happens every single time someone trusts in Christ. I know oftentimes we think of salvation in terms of the theology and the intellect. Christ died for our sins, the resurrection.

You must repent and believe. Are those things true? Yes, those things are all factually true. But salvation is not just intellect on a piece of paper. You know what it is? It is a personal, individual interaction with Christ himself. I’m talking about now, 2025. Every person that gets saved gets saved and passes from death unto life because the Lord, Jesus Christ personally called that person to believe.

And that person personally, one on one, responded to that call. So I know sometimes there’s always extremes. On the one hand, you’ve got the dry, dusty, cracker juice sort of description of the gospel as data. And the others, you have the sensational, kind of hyped up, experimental description of salvation, right? And I think the middle is somewhere in the middle. Obviously it’s in the middle. The right place is somewhere in the middle.

There are scriptural truths and facts we must accept and believe and receive and trust, yes. But it is absolutely a personal interaction with the living Savior who is alive at this moment. When you come to him, you’re coming to Jesus, the one who died and is risen and is seated at the right hand of God. You’re coming to him by faith. And you know what? He is answering you personally, individually, by faith.

And so Bartimaeus comes to the Lord Jesus and Jesus says, what wilt thou that I do for you? And he says, restore my sight. See, it’s personal. You know, the scripture repeatedly calls believers, refers to believers as the called. You know that? The called. Has anyone ever given that very much thought? Romans 1-6 says this, among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ? Romans 8-30, moreover, whom he did predestinate, then he also called?

Second Thessalonians 2-14, whereunto he called you by our gospel. You know what a call is? A call is a personal call. That is, when you come to Christ, you come because he called you. That’s the only reason why Bartimaeus came to Jesus is because Jesus called him personally. And so God calls us the called, the called. But then he also sometimes connects the called with the chosen.

Have you ever seen that? Matthew 22-14, for many are called, but few are chosen. Revelation 17-14 says called and chosen and faithful. There’s a connection between the called and the chosen. Maybe this is why the Lord connects the two. Because he calls, for sure the Lord calls personally to many who reject him. I think the scripture bears that out very plainly. But to those that receive him, they’re the called and the chosen and the faithful, not just the called.

And so what did Bartimaeus do? Verse 50, Jesus calls him. Just appall, how many of you remember when the Lord called you personally and said, you, you need to get saved. You need to get right with me. You need to be born again. That voice, that voice was terrifying. It was fearful. But when you come, immediate, immediate relief, immediate liberty, immediate healing. Right? And so what does he do?

Look at verse number, verse number 50. And he, Bartimaeus, casting away his garment, rose and came to Jesus. Why did he come to Jesus? Not because he’s a great guy, because he was called. Right? He came to Jesus because Jesus called him personally. He cast away his garment. Now, if, has anyone here ever traveled to like a developing country, like a third world country? Can you raise your hand if you’ve traveled to one that’s kind of poor?

While you were there, have you ever seen an actual beggar laying on the street? Right? I’ve seen that many times. What do their clothes look like? I mean, they are filthy. I mean, absolutely. He said, foul, that’s the word I wrote down. This man, and just picture the symbolism here, if you will. Bartimaeus is a beggar. He doesn’t even have the capacity to tell that he’s dirty, because he can’t see.

Right? Physically. So his garment is probably, I mean, absolutely wretched. But he leaves it. Why does the Lord give us that little tidbit of information? I don’t know. But it fits the picture pretty well, the picture of repentance. Because in scripture, a garment is a picture of righteousness or unrighteousness. Right? That’s the robes of righteousness. You’ve heard that? That’s a clear picture. And his robe of righteousness was very unrighteous as a poor man.

But he pictures a real sinner. Right? Someone who’s dirty, unclean. And yet, he drops that in repentance to come to Jesus. Now dropping his garment doesn’t heal his eyesight, but it does cause him to come to Jesus with the right heart and disposition, does it not? And so he comes to the Lord Jesus. Verse 51, and Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?

What are you asking for? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus in the way. This was not, I know it says, thy faith hath made thee whole, but this is not just a generic kind of faith you see in the world.

All these, you know, you look at media and these religious kind of types, you know, you see it in social media and stuff. And it’s just, you know, we just need to have faith. No, no, this is not generic faith here. This is faith pointed at someone. And that someone is Christ. It doesn’t matter. Faith, faith that is pointed at the wrong thing is vain. Faith pointed at a church or a religion is vain.

Faith pointed at a baptistry or water or good works is vain. It will not heal the blind. It will not save the soul. But faith pointed at the Lord Jesus is the mechanism, right? Now faith itself is not like a meritorious act. Some people get this all confused. Faith is not meritorious. Faith is leaning upon the merit of another Christ. Faith itself, it’s not like the Lord says, oh, you have faith so now I’m going to save you because of your good now.

No. It’s, Lord, I have nothing to offer. We come to Christ and because we’re leaning on his righteousness, which is non-faith and evil, he responds to it. But our faith must be pointed at Christ. No other object of faith will avail for our salvation. And notice this man’s healing was instant. Now what did this blind man, what did he believe? In his context, for his physical sight, he was believing that Jesus could heal him, right?

But for our study, what is our faith pointed at regarding Christ? That Christ died and bled on a cross in my place. He bore my penalty. He satisfied the demands of a holy God for my sin. He was buried and he rose again the third day. He is able to forgive me and save me and salvation is only in him. That’s the faith we look at for our soul’s salvation, pointed at the right way.

If I say, well, if we say, well, yeah, my faith is in Christ, you know, with the sacraments, no, it’s Christ, not these other substitutes that have the Christ label on them. It’s Christ himself. And that instant, notice verse 52, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole, and immediately all three gospels that record this say the word immediately. Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus in the way because salvation is instantaneous.

It’s not a process. Now there is a process that has led Bartimaeus to this point, but up to this point he’s been blind. Now in a moment he sees every person that comes to the Lord Jesus Christ and trust in him up until that moment, blind, but in an instant alive, seeing, justified. At that moment, that’s not something you grow into. That’s a miraculous act of God.

Listen, a miraculous personal act of God, one on one with you. That is what the Bible describes as salvation. You say, well, Jesus died 2,000 years ago, Jesus rose and they died 2,000 years ago, but he’s alive right now. He’s seated at the right hand of the Father. Right now he is able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him. Right now, and that’s exactly what he does.

He doesn’t say, all right, well, you just join this organization and you’ll, by virtue of the organization, you’ll, no, no, no, no, it’s you and him, one on one, one on one. And he was instantly healed, completely healed. And notice, I love this verse 52, we’re done, last thing. And Jesus said unto him, notice, what does it say? Go thy way. To me, I read that and I think he’s saying, all right, you’re healed.

Go wherever you want to go. But where does he go? Jesus says, go wherever you want to go. Go thy way. Now that you have your sight, you can go wherever you want. How is he going to use his sight? He is choosing to follow Jesus. There’s no better use of the eyes than that. Amen. Let’s pray.