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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 Jericho—as 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.