<p>18:40 <i>And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to him; and when he came near, he asked him</i>- The Lord could have walked up to the man as He did to others when curing them. But on this occasion He wished to teach that His calling of men to Him for healing often uses a human mechanism. The &quot;call&quot; comes through people bringing others to the Lord. The Lord &quot;calls&quot; just as the people &quot;called&quot; the man. The Lord's calling and our calling of men are thereby paralleled. The experience of being called by the Lord is not to be seen as an onerous call to responsibility before Him; rather is it the source of &quot;courage&quot;. His calling is because He wants to do something good for us, rather than saddle us with the weight of responsibility to judgment.</p>