<TITLE>18. Par 74-77</TITLE>L-74 "He heard a noise." Now, Mark is giving you a testimony of what he might've told him. "And all at once there came by such a noise, and somebody said, 'Who passes by?' Some of them said one thing and another, and the first thing you know, we heard a priest cry out, and said, 'Say, we understand that you raise the dead. We got a whole graveyard full of them up here. Come up here and raise one of these.'"
You know, that old devil isn't dead yet. No, sir. "If thou be..." Same one put a rag around His face, and hit Him on the head with a stick, and said, "If you're a prophet, tell us who hit you. We'll believe you." See? That same old devil that said, "If thou be the Son of God, we got somebody down... perform this miracle. Let us see you do it." God don't clown for nobody.
Jesus said, "I come to do the will of Him, and I do nothing till He tells Me first." (Saint John 5:19)

L-75 "So poor old blind Bartimaeus was pushed back. We heard all... One for Him, one saying, 'Hosanna to the prophet that comes in the Name of the Lord.' And another saying, 'Away with such a hypocrite.' Such a mixed crowd. There's always a mixed multitude where He's at. And we find out poor old blind Bartimaeus, if you ever was at Jericho and mark where he set, to where Jesus was two hundred yards almost. There that crowd, throwing overripe fruit at Him, and so forth, and making fun of Him..."
But His precious face was set towards Calvary. He was going up to be a Sacrifice for the world. The whole burden of sin laid upon Him. God had placed upon Him the iniquity of us all. He was walking on, not paying any attention to what they said. But He'd perform what the Father had told Him to do, and that settled it. And He was going on out of--of Jericho, walking out of the city. And the first thing you know, blind Bartimaeus said, "Who is it? Who is this? What--what's all the noise about?"
And somebody pushed him back. "Oh, shut up. You're an insignificant person," push him back, his old rags. He got up out of the dust.

L-76 There must've been a lovely Christian woman who was a believer on the Lord Jesus. They would never stand to see a blind man pushed around. They're always kind, Jesus' servants are. So this young woman might've got down and said, "Sir, could help you?"
"And yes, ma'am. I want you to tell me, what's all the noise about?"
"Oh, art thou a stranger here?"
"No, I was raised here."
"Well, that's Jesus of Nazareth, the prophet of Galilee."
"I do not understand."
"Does thou know the Scriptures?"
"Yes."
"You know that Jesus of Nazareth, a prophet that Moses said would be raised up, He's passing by. That's Him."

L-77 Then all of a sudden Bartimaeus, it dawned on him. "He's too far away for me to let Him hear me physically, on account of so many people. But if He is God, if that's the Son of David, I can still touch Him.' He might've fell on his knees and said, "O God, hear me. Thou Son of David have mercy upon me." He'd have never heard it literally with His ears, but the faith of that one blind beggar stopped Jesus. I'd like to preach one day, or sometime before I leave "And Jesus Stood Still." Yes?
And He stood still. And He didn't know... What was it? His faith stopped Him, and then He brought him." Oh, what a testimony meeting. They got to looking around; it was getting late. Said, "Brethren, we better pull on to the bank." So they started to pull again.


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