Bring the Blind Man to Jesus - Luke 18:40

The beloved physician Luke wrote when Jesus, “was come near unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging. And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passes by. And he cried, saying, Jesus, you Son of David, have mercy on me. And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, You Son of David, have mercy on me”, and in chapter eighteen and verse forty of his book Luke wrote how, “Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him” where we read:

And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him:

and when he was come near, he asked him,

The verse reads, “And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him:” Luke began with the words, “and Jesus stood” or “and the Son of God, the Savior of mankind and God incarnate whose name means Jehovah is Salvation began to stand, was fixed in place and established”, “and commanded him” which means “and incited and ordered the blind man” “to be brought unto him” or “to be carried, lead and guided to Jesus”. Luke shared how Jesus “stood still” and “ordered” the “blind man” to be “lead and guided” to Him.

The verse continues, “and when he was come near, he asked him, ...” Luke added the words, “and when” or “and at the time and moment” “he was come near” which means “the blind man arose and approached where Jesus was standing”, “he asked him” or “Jesus interrogated, requested and demanded of the blind man” the following question. Luke shared how the “blind man” approached Jesus, and He asked him the question in our next verse.

When we consider Luke's words in this verse, we learn how Jesus stopped walking and told the people to bring the “blind man” to where he was standing. After he came near Jesus, He began to ask the “blind man” the question found in our next verse. For now, let it suffice us to know that Jesus stopped, observed the “blind man”, told people surrounding him to bring him close to where He was standing, and began to question the man. In other words, Jesus “heard” the desperate “blind man's” shouts. God loves people to reach out to Him with their desperate needs, and when they “call out” to His Son Jesus, He will stand still to receive them into His Kingdom as their “Savior and Lord”.

Next time Luke shares how Jesus asked the blind man, “what will you that I shall do unto you?”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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