Mark 8:26
in Mark 8Jesus sent him home and said, “Do not go back into the village.”
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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.
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This verse in Mark 8
Commentary
4 notes on this verseMystically, 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
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.
A commentator
J.C. Ryle1816–1900
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)
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 wordsEvery 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.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| καὶ | kai | And | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| ἀπέστειλεν | apesteilen | He sent | G649 → | 132 times |
| αὐτὸν | auton | him | G846 → | 5565 times |
| εἰς | eis | to | G1519 → | 1755 times |
| οἶκον | oikon | home | G3624 → | 112 times |
| αὐτοῦ | autou | of him | G846 → | 5565 times |
| λέγων· | legon | saying; | G3004 → | 1325 times |
| μηδὲ | mede | Not | G3366 → | 56 times |
| εἰς | eis | into | G1519 → | 1755 times |
| τὴν | ten | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| κώμην | komen | village | G2968 → | 27 times |
| εἰσέλθῃς | eiselthes | shall you enter | G1525 → | 194 times |
καὶAnd
kaiG2532 →9120 times
ἀπέστειλενHe sent
apesteilenG649 →132 times
αὐτὸνhim
autonG846 →5565 times
εἰςto
eisG1519 →1755 times
οἶκονhome
oikonG3624 →112 times
αὐτοῦof him
autouG846 →5565 times
λέγων·saying;
legonG3004 →1325 times
μηδὲNot
medeG3366 →56 times
εἰςinto
eisG1519 →1755 times
τὴνthe
tenG3588 →19766 times
κώμηνvillage
komenG2968 →27 times
εἰσέλθῃςshall you enter
eiselthesG1525 →194 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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 8:4Then 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.
- Leviticus 14:2–32
Through
Mark 7:36Jesus 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.
- Matthew 8:4
Through
Matthew 12:16warning 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.
- Matthew 9:30
Through
Mark 8:23So 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.
- Mark 7:33
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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).
