Jesus calls the man as Jeremiah calls to Israel, to come back to the sacred inclusion. The physical healing here is more than meets the eye. There must be a truthful awareness of the state or condition, which calls out for God s truth of love to be initiated. Bartimaeus has to tell himself the truth about his being blind. Israel had to come to terms with its blindness and it took exile to bring them to their senses.
Intimacy takes place when truth meets truth.
Jesus calls Bartimaeus into this intimacy and after this encounter, then there is healing, change and reconstitution. In the days of Jesus, those who were physically disabled were considered somehow, cursed or at least, not blest. This continues in some cultures today, and even in the minds and spirits of those who have injuries, disfigurements or handicaps. This also continues in the hearts and spirits of those who have injured themselves or have been injured by others, in more interior ways. There can be a blindness in us when we have sent ourselves into exile because we had lost a sense of our sacredness.