Bartimaeus Cry, Request and Response Page

Hear the request and keep Jesus in the scene.

Fifteen minutes for one reading or family decisionFree · Two-page fillable PDF

Companion to Hear Bartimaeus’ Request Before Deciding What Someone Else Needs.

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Hypothetical example: A parent asks what a child needs clarified after practice instead of assuming the question concerns the score.

01Listen to the cry the crowd tries to silence

Trace Bartimaeus’ cry and the crowd’s initial response in the actual verses.

Bartimaeus’ cry

Crowd’s initial action

What changes when Jesus stops

02Attend to Jesus’ question and Bartimaeus’ answer

Record Jesus’ question, Bartimaeus’ request and the reported outcome.

Question Jesus asks

Request Bartimaeus makes

End of the encounter

03Ask before supplying another person’s need

Identify an ordinary adult assumption that needs a real question.

Conversation where I am guessing

Question that leaves room for an answer

Adult responsibility after hearing

04Keep following within the family’s reading

Return to the account’s ending and keep the application within its limits.

Following in the passage

Limit of our household analogy

Question for further church reading