Mark 8:25

Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.

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WEBBE

Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.

BSB

Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and when he opened them his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.

KJV

After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

ASV

Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes; and he looked stedfastly, and was restored, and saw all things clearly.

BBE

Then again he put his hands on his eyes; and looking hard, he was able to see, and saw all things clearly.

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εἶτα eita Then G1534 πάλιν palin again G3825 ἐπέθηκεν epethēken He put G2007 τὰς tas the G3588 χεῖρας cheiras hands G5495 ἐπὶ epi upon G1909 τοὺς tous the G3588 ὀφθαλμοὺς ophthalmous eyes G3788 αὐτοῦ autou of him G846 καὶ kai and G2532 ἐποίησεν epoiēsen made G4160 αὐτὸν auton him G846 διέβλεψεν dieblepsen look G1227 καὶ kai and G2532 ἀπεκατέστη apekatestē he restored G600 καὶ kai and G2532 ἐνέβλεπεν eneblepen he was seeing well G1689 τηλαυγῶς tēlaugōs clearly G5081 ἅπαντα hapanta everything G537

The early church

(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) From the commencement, however, of the return of his senses, He leads him to apprehend things by faith, and thus makes him see perfectly; wherefore it goes on, After that, he put his hands again upon his eyes, and he began to see, and afterwards he adds, And he was restored, and saw all things clearly; that is, being perfectly healed in his senses and his intellect. It goes on: And he sent him away to his house, saying, Go into thy home, and if thou enter into the town, tell it not to any one.

Pseudo-Chrysostom · d. 500Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

But He put His hands again upon his eyes, that he might see all things clearly, that is, understand invisible things by visible, and with the eye of a pure mind contemplate, what the eye hath not seen, the glorious state of his own soul after the rust of sin.

Pseudo-Jerome · d. 9999Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

But the reason why he did not see at once perfectly, but in part, was, that he had not perfect faith; for healing is bestowed in proportion to faith.

Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 22–26

Here is a blind man brought to Christ by his friends. Therein appeared the faith of those that brought him. If those who are spiritually blind, do not pray for themselves, yet their friends and relations should pray for them, that Christ would be pleased to touch them. The cure was wrought gradually, which was not usual in our Lord's miracles. Christ showed in what method those commonly are healed by his grace, who by nature are spiritually blind. At first, their knowledge is confused; but, like the light of the morning, it shines more and more to the perfect day, and then they see all things clearly. Slighting Christ's favours is forfeiting them; and he will make those who do so know the worth of privileges by the want of them.

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