The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 10:48
Many rebuked him, that he should hold his peace. They rebuked him, perhaps, out of reverence and regard for Christ, who might perhaps at that moment have been preaching to the people, and so might be disturbed by the blind man's loud and noisy appeal. But the rebuke of the crowd gave additional energy to his entreaties; and he cried out the more a great deal , that his voice might be heard above them all. He was in good earnest, and would not be restrained. A useful lesson is hem... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 10:46-52
Parallel passages: Matthew 20:29-34 ; Luke 18:35-43 — The cure of two blind men at Jericho. I. BLIND BARTIMAEUS . 1 . His condition was blind ; he was deprived of that most valuable sense of sight. He was a stranger to the beauties of nature. "The light is sweet, and a plant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun;" but that sun, that light, those beauties, those bright colors of sky or earth or sea; those lovely forms that appear in the heaven above, the earth beneath,... read more