Mark 8:24

The man looked around, and said, “I can see people, but they look like trees walking.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Jesus 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?”

25So Jesus touched the man's eyes again. He could see properly—he was cured and his sight was clear.

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Cross References

Isaiah 29:18At that time the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and the eyes of the blind will see through the gloomy darkness what's written there.

1 Corinthians 13:9For our knowledge and our prophetic understanding are incomplete.

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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