"International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". It is only a most mechanical theory of inspiration that would demand their harmonization. The discrepancies themselves are evidence of the wide currency of the story before our Gospels assumed their present form. The main incident is clear enough, and on purely historical grounds, the miracle cannot be denied. Regarding them as referring to the same event, it is easy to understand how the discrepancies arose in the passage of the story from mouth to mouth. It is not absolutely impossible that two or even three events are recorded, but so close is the similarity of the three accounts that it is highly improbable. 109,133 Ratings Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master.Again, according to Mt ( Matthew 20:29-34), "as they went out from Jericho" (like Mk) two blind men (unlike Mr and Lk) receive their sight. The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, 1) by Jonathan Stroud 4.02 avg. An almost identical account is given by Lu ( Luke 18:35-43), except that the incident occurred "as he drew nigh unto Jericho," and the name of the blind man is not given. In Mr ( Mark 10:46-52) Bartimeus is given as the name of a blind beggar, whose eyes Jesus Christ opened as He went out from Jericho on His last journey to Jerusalem. A hybrid word from Aramaic bar = "son," and Greek timaios = "honorable." For the improbability of the derivation from bar-tim'ai = "son of the unclean," and of the allegorical meaning = the Gentiles or spiritually blind, see Schmiedel in Encyclopedia Biblica.
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