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Jesus Heals the Blind Man – Bloch
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Artist: Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834-1890)
Title:Jesus Heals the Blind Man (Bartimaeus)
With unprecedented realism and uplifting vision, Carl Bloch shows us the wonder of Christ healing the blind man.
Bloch displays many of life’s usual suspects in this painting. There's the skeptic (red hat, on the left), the carefree
child wanting to see where all the action is at (lower left center), the dutiful apostle restraining the child from interrupting the miracle (right of child), the hopeful-pious servant watching Jesus with a holy joy (right of Jesus), the fellow right behind the hopeful-pious servant observing the skepticism of the skeptic, and the two men on top of the wall who watch with expectation but got stuck in the nose-bleed section.
All the viewers watch and wait – permanently caught in the brush strokes of Carl Bloch.
One of the more popular themes for many artists, Jesus
healing the blind man, has several references in the New Testament. One that appears most fitting for this painting comes from the Evangelist Saint
Mark. Right before the passage on Jesus healing the blind man,
He speaks to his apostles about "whosoever shall be the first among you, shall
be the servant of all. For the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto,
but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many." - Mark 10:44-45
To immediately practice exactly what He preaches, Jesus
Christ shows an excellent example of "ministering": He heals a
blind man. One of the other neat things
about this passage is that it actually refers to the blind man by name: Bartimeus,
which is a Syriac word literally translating as 'son of Timaeus'. People in the
New Testament who are miraculously healed usually don't have recorded names.
Perhaps this is another reason why Carl Bloch decided to paint such a prominent
scene.
Jesus Christ performing the miracle of healing the blind
is an example of healing mankind of his spiritual blindness. Often it becomes
simple to forget about the spiritual aspect of reality, to become 'blind' to what really matters. Jesus Christ is the one to remove our spiritual blindness
in order for us to continue on the road to perfection. Hopefully, we can be
like the blind and 'leap up' to directly follow Christ forever.
For the verbatim story of healing the blind man, Saint Mark
tells it quite well, so we finish with his rendition of the story:
“And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho, with his
disciples, and a very great multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son of
Timeus, sat by the way side begging. Who
when he had heard, that it was Jesus of Nazareth, began to cry out, and to say:
Jesus son of David, have mercy on me. And many rebuked him, that he might hold his
peace; but he cried a great deal the more: Son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus, standing still, commanded him to be
called. And they call the blind man, saying to him: Be of better comfort:
arise, he calleth thee. Who casting off his garment leaped up, and came to him.
And Jesus answering, said to him: What wilt thou that I should do to thee? And
the blind man said to him: Rabboni, that I may see. And Jesus saith to him: Go thy way, thy faith
hath made thee whole. And immediately he saw, and followed him in the way. – Mark 10:46-52
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