Miami Shores Baptist Church

Bartimaeus was an outcast--a man with a disability who had been reduced to begging in the street. He'd heard about Jesus and the things that He had done, the people He had healed. So when Jesus is nearby, Bartimaeus desperately shouts, "Have mercy on me!" The crowd tells him to shut up, but the blind man persists. How can he keep quiet? What other hope is there for him? "Have mercy on me!" he cries. The Man named Jesus stops. "Bring him here," he commands. Jesus heard Bartimaeus' cries.