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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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