a poor blind man, Sir.” His asking of Jesus what he asked of every other traveler would have revealed the substance of his faith and the priority of his life. Far too many ask far too little of Jesus; they seek an extra margin of comfort in their miserable slavery to sin when they could ask for—and receive—a full measure of God’s forgiveness, mercy, and saving grace! As I stated in my comments on the parallel passage in Insights on Luke (Luke 18:39–42), “there’s more than meets the eye for those