Mark 8:26 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 8:26

Jesus sent him home and said, “Do not go back into the village.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he sent him away to his home, saying, Do not even enter into the village.

KJV

And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary (church-history corpus) (420)

Mystically, however, Bethsaida is interpreted, 'the house of the valley', that is, the world, which is the vale of tears. Again, they bring to the Lord a blind man, that is, one who neither sees what he has been, what he is, nor what he is to be. They ask Him to touch him, for what is being touched, but feeling compunction?.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

He sent him away to his house - So it appears that this person did not belong to Bethsaida, for, in going to his house, he was not to enter into the village. This miracle is not mentioned by any other of the evangelists. It affords another proof that Mark did not abridge Matthew’s Gospel.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

We do not know the reason of the peculiar means employed by our Lord Jesus Christ, in working the miracle recorded in these verses. We see a blind man miraculously healed. We know that a word from our Lord's mouth, or a touch of His hand would have been sufficient to effect a cure. But we see Jesus taking this blind man by the hand — leading him out of the town — spitting on his eyes — putting His hands on him, and then, and not until then, restoring his sight.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἀπέστειλεν	apesteilen	He sent	G649 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
οἶκον	oikon	home	G3624 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of him	G846 →
λέγων·	legōn	saying;	G3004 →
μηδὲ	mēde	Not	G3366 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
κώμην	kōmēn	village	G2968 →
εἰσέλθῃς	eiselthēs	shall you enter	G1525 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 8:4
Then Jesus instructed him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, as a testimony to them.”
leads to
- Leviticus 14:2–32
  “This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.
- Mark 7:36
  Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more He ordered them, the more widely they proclaimed it.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Luke 5:14
  “Do not tell anyone,” Jesus instructed him. “But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
- Luke 17:14
  When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.
Through
Mark 7:36
Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more He ordered them, the more widely they proclaimed it.
leads to
- Matthew 8:4
  Then Jesus instructed him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, as a testimony to them.”
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Through
Matthew 12:16
warning them not to make Him known.
leads to
- Matthew 9:30
  And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Mark 8:23
So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him. “Can you see anything?” He…
leads to
- Mark 7:33
  So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.
- John 9:6–7
  When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.