Mark 8:23
Jesus took the blind man by the hand and took him outside the village. Jesus spat on the man's eyes and touched him with his hands. Then Jesus asked him, “Can you see anything?”
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24The man looked around, and said, “I can see people, but they look like trees walking.”
Cross References
Isaiah 51:18Of all your children you had, there's not one left to guide you. Of all the children you raised, there's not one to take you by the hand.
Mark 5:23and pleaded with him, saying, “My little daughter is about to die. Please come and place your hands on her so she may be healed and live.”
John 9:6After he'd said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva which he put on the man's eyes.
Acts 23:19The commander took the young man by the hand and drew him aside. “What do you have to tell me?” he asked quietly.
Revelation 3:18I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so you may be rich; and have white clothes so you can be properly dressed and you won't reveal your nakedness and shame; and ointment to put on your eyes so you can see.
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 →