Chapter # 10 Paragraph # 6 Study # 3
December 5, 2023
Moss Bluff, Louisiana
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Thesis: Jesus The Nazarene is the Davidic King.
Introduction: In our last two studies, we have seen the issues of "Jericho", the initial beginning point of the conquest of the land of the Kingdom, and of "Bartimaeus" the Son of Timaeus being reduced to being a beggar along the road.
This evening we are going to look at the significance of the actions of this Bartimaeus.
- I. The Actions Of Bartimaeus.
- A. Having heard (Aorist Participle of "akouo")
- 1. What he heard: "...it is Jesus The Nazarene..."
- 2. Mark's references to ho Nazarenos are instructive.
- a. Luke 4:34 and 24:19 are the only other New Testament references to this construction, identifying Jesus as ho Nazarenos, though there are 11 texts in the Gospels (the only one found in Mark is 1:9) and one in The Acts that refer to Nazareth.
- 1) The Acts 10:38 text is part of a record of Peter's message to Cornelius.
- 2) The 1:9 reference in Mark tells us that Jesus came from Nazareth to be baptized by John "in the Jordan".
- b. Mark's use of this "title".
- 1) In 1:24 (in Mark's beginning paragraph of his record beyond his introduction), the "unclean spirit" interrupts Jesus' message in the synagogue of Capernaum on the Sabbath by "crying out" (anakrazo) "Iesou Nazarene" and inserting three "issues", about which Jesus immediately shut him up.
- a) "What do we have to do with each other?"
- b) "Have You come to destroy us?"
- c) "I know who you are -- the Holy One Of God!"
- 2) In our current text (10:47), Bartimaeus "hears" that the commotion is being caused by the passing of "Jesus The Nazarene" and "begins to cry out" (krazein) and "say" (legein).
- a) "Son of David, Jesus..."
- (1) Mark's references to David are also highly enlightening.
- i. In 2:25, Jesus reminds His accusers that "David" did the same kind of thing He was doing, and no one faults David.
- ii. In our current text, Mark emphasizes the fact that Bartimaeus is loudly crying out to Jesus as "Son of David" (10:47-48).
- iii. In 11:10, the crowd is ecstatic about "the coming kingdom of our father David" (a large and public identification of Jesus as the One Who is to usher in the prophesied "Kingdom of David").
- iv. In the last references (a set of three verses; 12:35-37), Jesus reveals how He can be both "son" of David and "Lord" of David from Psalm 110:1 as a declaration that David recognizes that there is a "The LORD" Who says to "My Lord"...
- (2) "Jesus", in the mouth of Bartimaeus, is a definitive identification of Jesus The Nazarene with King David of 2 Samuel 7 notoriety (the covenant of God with David to "build him a house" that would last indefinitely).
- b) "Show me mercy".
- (1) "Mercy" is only found in Mark in 5:19 and in 10:47-48 with a direct link between the exorcism of chapter 5 and this blindness in our current text.
- (2) This is, again, Mark's use of spiritual/physical power to force the recognition that Jesus is "The Coming Mighty One" and the crowd cries out the words "Blessed is He Who comes [in regard to] the coming of the kingdom of our father, David".
- B. When the crowd tried to make him be quiet, he was all the more "loud".
