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Mark 8:23

Mark 8:23
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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And he took the blind man by the hand,.... Not for the sake of touching him, in order to heal him, as they desired, but to be his guide:

and led him out of the town; to shun all appearance of vain…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Led him out of the town - Why this was done the sacred writers have not told us. It might have been to avoid the collecting of a multitude, and thus to have escaped the designs of the Pharisees who…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

And he took the blind man by the hand - Giving him a proof of his readiness to help him, and thus preparing him for the cure which he was about to work.

Led him out of the town - Thus showing the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Mark 8:22-26

This cure is related only by this evangelist, and there is something singular in the circumstances.

I. Here is a blind man brought to Christ by his friends, with a desire that he would touch him, Mar…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

he took the blind man Even as He did with the other sufferer, whose case came before us in Mar 7:33. As then, so now, the Lord was pleased to work gradually and with external signs: (i) He leads the…