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Mark 8:24

Mark 8:24
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And he looked up,.... This is omitted in the Arabic and Persic versions. The sense is, that he opened his eyelids, and lifted up his eyes, to try if he could see, and he could, and did see again; his…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

I see men, as trees, walking - I see men walking, but see them so indistinctly that, but for their “motion,” I could not distinguish them from trees. I cannot distinctly see their shapes and features.…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

I see men as trees, walking - His sight was so imperfect that he could not distinguish between men and trees, only by the motion of the former.

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

as trees, walking He had not been bornblind. He remembered the appearance of natural objects, and in the haze of his brightening vision he saw certain moving forms about him, "trees he should have…

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