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Mark 10:50
Throwing off his cloak, Bartimaeus jumped up and came to Jesus.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus has stopped his journey and commanded the crowd to summon the blind beggar, who is then told to approach him. Bartimaeus responds to this direct summons by leaving his seated position and moving toward Jesus.
The words — The text highlights ἀποβαλὼν (apobalōn), literally "having cast away," and ἀναπηδὴσας (anapēdēsas), literally "having jumped up," to describe Bartimaeus's sudden physical response. These aorist participles record the decisive and immediate nature of his movement.
The thread — The motif of discarding a garment to pursue a higher calling appears in Philippians 3:7, where Paul counts past gains as loss for Christ. Hebrews 12:1 similarly exhorts believers to throw off encumbrances that hinder their spiritual race.
Why it lands — The narrative records a blind man abandoning his means of identification and livelihood to approach the one who can heal him. A reader must decide whether to cling to familiar burdens or move immediately toward the source of deliverance.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
Cross-references
- Philippians 3:7 But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
- Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.