Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they also praised God. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

The story of Blind Bartamaeus teaches us how to be saved. This is yet another precious picture of how to get saved. Yes, the story is wonderful, because Jesus heard the cry of this blind man and called Bartimaeus to him and healed him.

When Jesus healed Bartimaeus, Jesus told him to “Go,your faith has healed you” but instead of leaving when he received his sight, the Bible tells us that Bartimaeus followed Jesus. Bartimaeus did not just want the healing, but he also wanted the healer.

Vernon K. Robbins emphasizes that the healing of Bartimaeus is the last of Jesus’ healings in Mark, and links Jesus’ earlier teaching about the suffering and death of the Son of Man with his Son of David activity in Jerusalem.

According to the Gospel of John, 9:1–12, Jesus saw a man who had been blind since birth. Like the Lord God who formed Adam from the dust of the earth, Jesus makes clay and creates a new man. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

In the Bible, St. Paul (Saul of Tarsus) was struck blind by a light from heaven. Three days later his vision was restored by a “laying on of hands.” The circumstances surrounding his blindness represent an important episode in the history of religion.

Anna the Prophetess

In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, the writers tell of Jesus healing a blind man. Of the many miraculous healings by Christ, it is unusual for the Gospel writers to name the people that were healed, but we can see here that the name of the blind man was revealed—Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus was a blind man.

“Being spiritually blind doesn’t mean that you can’t see,” says Sophia, 10. “It means that you don’t believe in God.” When Jesus gave sight to a man born blind, it started a debate among Jerusalem’s religious establishment. Jesus purposely and often healed on the Sabbath.

The World English Bible translates the passage as: “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your. whole body will be full of light.

Intro: The Bible is a unique and strange Book. The Bible contains “God’s thoughts” which are strange and yet marvelous spiritual teachings. Among them are paradoxes. A Paradox is defined as a seemingly self-contradictory declaration but is in fact true.

In 1972 the World Health Organization proposed a uniform definition of blindness as visual acuity of less than 3/60 in the better eye, with best possible correction. …

Blindness is a lack of vision. It may also refer to a loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses. Partial blindness means you have very limited vision. Complete blindness means you cannot see anything and DO NOT see light. (Most people who use the term “blindness” mean complete blindness.)

it shows that physical blindness mirrors psychological, moral, and intellectual blindness. sometimes literature can be ironic. the blind can see and the sighted are blind. when reading, grow into asking out of the box questions, because many times blindness is metaphorical.

Foster identifies two categories of violence in literature: violence that characters enact upon one another, and harmful events that happen to characters in order to advance the plot.

5 strategies to make reading a novel easy

1. Read for comprehension. This is always the goal when we read anything.
2. Pay attention to repetition. Novelists are typically extremely detail oriented when writing their novels.
3. Read with themes in mind.
4. Know your literary elements.
5. Watch for interpretations when reading a novel.

This go-to guide unlocks all the hidden secrets to reading, making it entertaining and satisfying. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers.

So one of the hardest things about reading is fighting distractions. Reading is already a complex activity. Throw in distractions, and it’s far to easy to give up.

Some readers can’t concentrate when there’s any noise around them, while others can read anywhere. Reproduce those ideal conditions — particularly when you’re reading a difficult book. Keep a dictionary with you as you read. Look up any words you don’t understand.

Reading literature enables us to see the world through the eyes of others. It trains the mind to be flexible, to comprehend other points of view—to set aside one’s personal perspectives to see life through the eyes of someone who is of another age, class, or race.

Literature teaches us how to live. Literature makes the reader visit places, experience events, meet people, listen to them, feel their joys and sufferings. It takes years to acquire so much wisdom that a single book of literary merit instills in a reader. Literature mirrors the society and its mannerisms.

Literature expand our imaginations and refine our moral and social sensibilities. The emotional situations and moral dilemmas that are the stuff of literature are also exercise for the brain studies suggest, increasing our real-life. We also become sensitive towards other human beings.

Classic literature is important because it opens up a perspective to different worlds and historical perspectives. Reading classic novels has also improved my overall vocabulary and writing skills because writers from an older time period have unique styles of writing.

Literature acts as a form of expression for each individual author. Some books mirror society and allow us to better understand the world we live in. However, literature confirms the real complexity of human conflict”. Literature is a reflection of humanity and a way for us to understand each other.

Five Reasons to Study Literature

• Literature improves communication skills. The easiest way to improve vocabulary, writing, and speaking skills is to study literature.
• Literature teaches you about yourself.
• Literature teaches about the past.
• Literature cultivates wisdom and a worldview.
• Literature entertains.

The reason we find classics so hard to digest is that we lack context. None of us were alive when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, and we certainly weren’t alive when Plato was writing Republic. Shakespeare (I never thought I would say this) is easier to understand because he writes in Modern English.

• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
• The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald.
• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe.
• Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville.
• The Color Purple, by Alice Walker.
• Catch-22, by Joseph Heller.
• Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.
• The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Top 100 best selling books of all time

10 books to read in your lifetime

• 1 of 10. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
• 2 of 10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
• 3 of 10. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
• 4 of 10. Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
• 5 of 10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
• 6 of 10. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
• 7 of 10. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• 8 of 10.