Bartimaeus and Zacchaeus at Jericho
Mark 10:46–52; Luke 18:35–19:10
On his last journey up to Jerusalem, Jesus gave sight to blind Bartimaeus at Jericho and invited himself to the house of Zacchaeus, a rich chief tax collector who had climbed a sycamore tree to see him.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke 19:10 (World English Bible)
Bartimaeus kept shouting “Son of David, have mercy on me!” though the crowd told him to be quiet; he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road. Zacchaeus promised to give half his goods to the poor and to repay fourfold anyone he had cheated.
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Dating notes
Ussher: March AD 33, shortly before Jesus reached Bethany six days before the Passover (John 12:1). The month shown is estimated from the order of events in Ussher's harmony, so that events of the same year appear in sequence.