In Mark’s account of the healing of a poor beggar named Bartimaeus, found in Mark 10:46-52, we find a man in desperate need, and desperate need calls for desperate measures. Bartimaeus, upon hearing Jesus was passing by, began to plead with Jesus to have mercy on him.
Jesus, in His teaching in Luke 11 on the reluctant neighbor and again in Luke 18 on the parable of the widow and the judge,…