Explore "Mark 10: 47-–-48" by John Newton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I: "Mercy, thou son of David!"
Thus blind Bartimeus pray'd; / "Others by thy word are saved, / Now to me afford thine aid."
Many for his crying chid him, / But he call'd the louder still, / Till the gracious Saviour bid him
"Come, and ask me what you will."
II: Money was not what he wanted, / Though by begging used to live; / But he ask'd, and Jesus granted / Alms which none but he could give:
"Lord, remove this grievous blindness, / Let my eyes behold the day;"
Straight he saw and, won by kindness, / Follow'd Jesus in the way.
III: Oh! methinks I hear him praising, / Publishing to all around, / "Friends, is not my case amazing?
What a Saviour I have found!
Oh! that all the blind but knew him, / And would be advised by me; / Surely they would hasten to him, / He would cause them all to see. "