Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Mark 10:46-52
See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 20:29-34.Mark 10:46Blind Bartimeus - Matthew says there were two. Mark mentions but one, though he does not deny that there was another. He mentions this man because he was well known - Bartimeus, the “blind man.”Mark 10:50Casting away his garment - That is, his outer garment - the one that was thrown loosely over him. See the notes at Matthew 5:40. He threw it off, full of joy at the prospect of being healed, and that he might run without... 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