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Feb 5, 2020 · Further, the passage about the two-stage healing (8:21–26) is the final literary unit before the widely recognized Markan section that spans from 8:27–10:52. We could title these chapters “The False Path of Worldly Glory vs. the Way of the Cross.”. This portion of Mark contain a thrice-repeated pattern: (1) Jesus predicts his death, (2 ...
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Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. Near Decapolis, some people brought Jesus a deaf man who could hardly talk. Jesus healed the man, of course, but in an interesting manner: “Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue” (Mark 7:33). Later, in the town of Bethsaida, Jesus healed a blind man. Again, the miracle was preceded ...
Mar 30, 2023 · It seems Jesus wanted to interact with the man on a personal level rather than heal the man in an impersonal or showy way (Mark 7:33–35). Again, similar to how Jesus healed the deaf man, Jesus used His saliva as part of His healing of the blind man. Jesus applied the saliva, laid His hands on the man, and asked him if he could see (Mark 8:23).
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As Jesus “went along, he saw a man blind from birth” (John 9:1). The text doesn’t tell us why Jesus immediately noticed the blind man. Maybe because he begged along the road, and Jesus felt compassion. As a deity, Jesus knew. He saw the need for the blind man to “see, being made whole spiritually and physically. Jesus was moved with compassion for ...
Jesus could have spoken a word to heal, but this time used dirt and saliva to cover the blind eyes. Feeling the dirt on his eyes, did he have thoughts of anticipation or doubts racing through his mind? “Why did he put mud on my eyes?” “Can I really see, after all these years?” “Who is this man?” “Can he make me see?” He could have begun to doubt an...
The Phariseesdidn’t believe the blind man was healed. But the blind man, now healed, said, “Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” The Pharisees accused him of being steeped in sin at birth and told him to stop lecturing them. They threw him out of the synagogue. John 9:35...
Jesus heals today, as in John 9. His purpose is still to save those who are lost. And for those who are His children, the compassion and love of Jesus give miraculous, physical healing. When healing doesn’t come in an expected way, trust that God is working out what is best (Romans 8:28). We are to “ask, and you will receive” (Matthew 7:7). A few e...
Jul 7, 2010 · All the Bible commentators remark on this because there is nothing else like it in the gospels. We know that everything Jesus did, he did for a purpose. He never did "random" miracles or simply performed miracles for no reason at all. So there must be some purpose in the two-stage healing of this blind man. But the text merely relates the story.
Mar 24, 2023 · Jesus heals the blind man to correct the disciples’ misunderstanding. Jesus affirms that the man born blind is created in the image of God. Importantly, when Jesus says that the man is born “that the works of God might be revealed in him,” Jesus mentions his birth, not his blindness. In other words, the man is born so that God might be ...
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Authored by Luke pre-Pentecost, the blindness in this passage is better explained in Chapter 9 of John's gospel,(who authored his gospel some 30 years after receiving the Holy Spirit Pentecost), where we see the healing of a man blind from birth as an illustration of two forms of blindness, one physical and the other spiritual: "Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those ...
