As Jesus left Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, blind Bartimaeus sat begging by the side of the road. The Gospel of Mark says, “And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
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