50And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
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But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. …
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 46-52)This passage of story agrees with that, Matt. 20:29 Only that there were told of two blind men; here, and Luke 18:35; only of one : but if there were two , there was one . This one is named here, being a blind beggar that was much talked of; he was called Bartimeus , that is, the son of Timeus ; which, some think, signifies the son of a blind man ; he was the blind son of a blind father, which mad…
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