Mark 8:24

And looking up, he said, “I see men but they are like walking trees.”

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In The King James Version

And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

In Context

23And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him beyond the village. And putting spit on his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he could see anything.

25Next he placed his hands again over his eyes, and he began to see. And he was restored, so that he could see everything clearly.

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Cross References

Isaiah 29:18And in that day, the deaf will hear the words of a book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind will see.

1 Corinthians 13:9For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part.

Matthew Henry on Mark 8:23-27

A Blind Man Restored to Sight. 22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him. 23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. 24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. 25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly. 26 And he sent him away to his house,… Read the whole commentary →

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