[Music] and so he says what do you want me to do for you and the blind man says master let me receive my sight okay so another interesting dimension here is the address that this the man gives bartimaeus calls jesus master now it's a little unfortunate here that the Revised Standard Version translates this as master because the Greek word for master is actually dis both days we get the word despot from them it's the idea of a slave master but that's not the word Bartimaeus actually uses here the Greek word here is ro boonie which
is an Aramaic version of rabbi which more properly translated means my teacher the reason I bring up that difference is because we're a boonie has a personal dimension to it it literally means my teacher so by calling Jesus were a boonie he isn't just saying master he's saying my teacher I want to see so he's affirming a personal relationship with Christ so it's not just hey you're the Messiah you're the king objectively but subjectively he is putting himself under Jesus's tutelage he's saying my teacher my rabbi I want to see and there's an implicit faith
in that title of rabbi or a boonie and Jesus responds to that and says go on your way your faith has made you well and then finally Mark's favorite expression immediately youth through sangre immediately immediately immediately we've been walking through this gospel all these weeks now and you see mark over and over again say Jesus immediately did this and immediately he did that immediately he did this youth through youth this youth Zeus and Greek right here same thing immediately he received his sight and then he followed him on the way last element there followed him
on the way what does that mean well halt Dawson Greek is just the word for a path or a way or a road and so on one level what does that mean Jesus was going on the road out of Jericho he meets Bartimaeus he heals him now bartimaeus starts to walk with Jesus he follows Jesus he becomes a disciple of Jesus however there's also a deeper possible meaning when you remember that the word the way was one of the earliest names for the church in the book of Acts so in Acts chapter 4 it speaks
about Jerusalem authorities persecuting those who belong to the way a whole das and Greek same thing the path and this was just one of the terms that were used for the church sometimes it's called Church sometimes called the way sometimes it's called the Nazarene sometimes Christians are all these different names and in this case though it's an evocative term because if you are asking Jews about the way or the road another connotation would be the road through the desert at the time of the Exodus when God made a path in the wilderness so there are
two ways in the Bible there's the way or the path of the Exodus under Moses and then there's the way or the path of the new Exodus under Jesus so we've mentioned before this theme of the new Exodus in the Gospel of Mark at different points like Jesus going out into the desert for 40 days the opening of the gospel just like Israel was in the desert at the time in the Exodus we saw Jesus talk about the Son of Man giving his life as a ransom for a multitude of people just like God ransom
the multitude six hundred thousand Israelites from slavery to Pharaoh at the time of the exodus you got all these Exodus images swirling around beneath the surface of Mark's Gospel well here here's one more the new Exodus the new path the new way that we're all called out of bondage and called to journey into is the way of discipleship it's the way of following the Lord [Music] [Music]
