When you compare the story of Bartimaeus with the stories that come before it in the gospel of Mark, the first thing that might stand out is that nothing goes wrong.
I think I’ve told you part of this story before, but when our daughter Katie was in preschool, she had a very clever teacher. In the corner of the classroom was a life size poster of a cartoon cowboy. It was only the top half of his body so, the average four-year-old could look him right in the eye. When one of…