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Encounters with Jesus.
Bartimaeus: From by the wayside to on The Way.
Today we’re going to look at :
But before we do that, I want to share with you a bit of personal context as to how I prepared this message.
Passage allocation.
I don't want to do this talk.
Healing is uncomfortable for me.
Why Jesus had 4 dads, 13 mums, and 2 surnames.
How we can go from by the wayside to On The Way.
So let’s examine the passage together, look at what it teaches us, and look at what it means for us.
v46 Jesus has been ministering in Judea, and three times He had told His disciples that He was going to be killed.
So now He is journeying to Jerusalem, passing through Jericho, and there’s a strong sense that He knows what awaits Him there.
There’s a great crowd with them.
It’s nearly passover, and we don’t know how many of the crowd were simply travelling to Jerusalem, and how many were gathered around this teacher and miracle worker.
Bartimaeus is sat by the roadside, begging.
People who beg don’t tend to hide in alleyways - if you want people to give you money, you need to be where the people are.
We don’t know whether this was Bartimaeus’s regular spot, or whether he sat here because he knew a crowd would be travelling the Jerusalem road for passover.
In April every year we have the London marathon.
Thousands of people line the streets, and are actually nice to each other.
Crowds gather.
If you wanted to beg that day, it would make sense to be where the crowds are.
How much more so with a religious festival?
We know from the sermon on the mount that people connected their charitable giving to their religion (), and that the most outwardly religious people liked to do this in public.
So a religious gathering would be even more of an opportunity to beg.
v47 Bartimaeus hears that it is ‘Jesus of Nazareth passing by, and he starts shouting “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me”.
We need to pause in our story to think about who Jesus is revealed here to be.
I said at the start that Jesus had 2 surnames, 13 mums and 4 dads.
His surnames were Of Nazareth and Christ.
His mother was Mary, but He also referred to the 12 disciples as His mother.
His surnames were Of Nazareth and Christ.
He was called:
Son of Joseph
Son of Man
Son of God
Son of David
OK so the first few there are a joke.
Of Nazareth and Christ were not surnames, but important titles that told where Jesus was from, both in an earthly and a heavenly sense.
Nazareth was the town He was from, and Christ is a greek word for ‘messiah’, which means God’s anointed one, the promised deliverer.
Jesus was comparing the closeness of His relationship with His disciples to that of His relationship with His family when He called them His mother and brothers.
But let’s look at Jesus’s 4 fathers.
Son of Joseph, the carpenter
Jesus never referred to Himself as Joseph’s Son, and we actually don’t know what happened to Joseph since he kind of fades out of the story some time in Jesus’s teens.
54 Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed.
“Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked.
55 “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?
Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?
56 Aren’t all his sisters with us?
Where then did this man get all these things?”
57 And they took offense at him.
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”
58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.
So Jesus’s earthly parentage was used against Him, by people who couldn’t believe something good could come from a poor family like His.
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”
Son of Man
58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.
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Jesus frequently referred to Himself as the Son of Man.
“the Son of Man has the authority on the earth to forgive sins” (Mark 2:10; Matt 9:6; Luke 5:24) and claims that “the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath” (Mark 2:28; Matt 12:8; Luke 6:5)
Jesus refers to Himself as the Son of Man more than 80 times.
So what does He mean?
To what is He referring?
To understand this we need to go back to the prophet Daniel
explain who Daniel was
Daniel had a vision of God in heaven.
It’s pretty dramatic.
It goes like this:
9 “As I looked,
“thrones were set in place,
and the Ancient of Days took his seat.
His clothing was as white as snow;
the hair of his head was white like wool.
His throne was flaming with fire,
and its wheels were all ablaze.
10 A river of fire was flowing,
coming out from before him.
Thousands upon thousands attended him;
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
The court was seated,
and the books were opened.
And then, something surprising happens...
13 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, o coming with the clouds of heaven.
He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.
14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
So in claiming to be the Son of Man, is Jesus claiming to be the human-looking figure who is given everlasting dominion by God? Well let’s look at how His early followers understood it.
Stephen:
54 When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.
55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
56 “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
57 At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, 58 dragged him out of the city and began to stone him.
Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Son of Man - the one prophesied by Daniel who would share in the divine glory.
A claim so controversial that it would get His followers killed.
Son of God
Jesus was called the Son of God by all kinds of people - a Roman centurion, His own disciples, in accusation by the high priest, by demons, and by the devil.
It was also spoken over Him by the Father, who said “This is my Son”.
Mark’s gospel, where we are today, opens by referring to Jesus as Son of God.
We need to understand that Jesus is not the only ‘son of God’ mentioned in the Bible and in contemporary culture.
This was a title frequently used for Israel’s kings, for angels, and even for the nation of Israel itself.
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