Jericho
Jericho Excerpt With a great crowd following Him , Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem for that final Passover . There were two cities named Jericho : the ruined old city and the new city about a mile away, built by Herod. This helps to explain how He could depart from Jericho ( Matt. 20:29 ), draw near to Jericho ( Luke 18:35 ), and come and go out of Jericho all at the same time and still meet the two blind beggars ( Matt. 20:30 ). Mark describes the healing of Bartimaeus, the more vocal of the two, just as he did the healing of one of the Gadarene demoniacs ( 5:2 ). More Wiersbe, Warren W. Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines on the New Testament . Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1992. Print.