Blind Man At Bethsaida
23 he took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village.
Blind man at bethsaida. The blind man at bethsaida jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him he asked him do you see anything and he looked up and said i see people but they look like trees walking. Now we come to bethsaida and there is a miracle performed in two stages. Blind with no sight 22 1 presentaton of the man.
And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him he asked him do you see anything and he looked up and said i see people but they look like trees. 22 they came to bethsaida and some people brought a blind man and begged jesus to touch him. The district might as well have been dark and dismal bleak and black.
It is not because jesus batteries were low. The blind man of bethsaida is the subject of one of the miracles of jesus in the gospels it is found only in mark 8 22 26. According to mark s account when jesus came to bethsaida a town in galilee he was asked to heal a blind.
They look like trees walking around. And when he had spit on his eyes and put his hands upon him he asked him if he saw ought. The blind man of bethsaida and he cometh to bethsaida.
It was a symbol for the disciples. But what were all these to this blind man. 23 and he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town.
When he had spit on the man s eyes and put his hands on him jesus asked do you see anything. And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.
And when he had spit on his eyes and put his hands upon him he asked him if he saw ought. Takes place back near the feeding of the 5000. At any rate a blank a night without moon or star midnight with its darkness visible even darkness that might be felt.
22 and he cometh to bethsaida. Jesus heals a blind man at bethsaida. 24 he looked up and said i see people.
25 after that he put his hands again upon his eyes and made him look up. And they bring a blind man unto him and besought him to touch him. All the region round bethsaida was charming the glancing waters of the lake the lovely flowers of the galilean hills were a sight worth seeing.
The exact location of bethsaida in this pericope is subject to debate among scholars but is likely to have been bethsaida julias on the north shore of lake galilee. 24 and he looked up and said i see men as trees walking. And he comes to bethsaida.
It represents the two stages of understanding of the disciples.
