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Mark 8:26

in Mark 8

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

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.

This verse in Mark 8

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary (church-history corpus) · Written before 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?.

This site's exposition

I see men as trees, walking

on Mark 8:24-26

I see men as trees, walking is the honest report of a healing still in progress, sight returned but not yet resolved, and the bench reads Mark's placement of this alone-recorded gradual miracle directly before Peter's own half-formed confession as the chapter's own argument rather than an accident of order. Jesus lays hands on his eyes a second time and he is restored, and saw every man clearly, the completion following the same two touches the disciples themselves will need before they see the crucified Christ plainly. He is sent home with the same messianic-secret caution given elsewhere, neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 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.

on Mark 8:22-26

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.

The words behind it

12 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • 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.”

    it 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 separate 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.

    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 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Matthew 12:16

    warning them not to make Him known.

    it 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 separate 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…

    it 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.

Where this verse is studied

About Mark

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee — Rembrandt (1633), public domain
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee — Rembrandt (1633), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture, Mark; J. C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Mark; J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) and Jerome, Commentary (church-history corpus).