Mark 8:26

He sent him away to his house, saying, “Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.”

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WEBBE

He sent him away to his house, saying, “Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.”

BSB

Jesus sent him home and said, “Do not go back 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.

ASV

And he sent him away to his home, saying, Do not even enter into the village.

BBE

And he sent him away to his house, saying, Do not even go into the town.

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The early church

These precepts He gave him, because they were unfaithful, as has been said, lest perchance he should receive hurt in his soul from them, and they by their unbelief should ran into a more grievous crime. Or else, after He has healed him He sends him to his home; for the home of every one of us is heaven, and the mansions which are there.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
He sent him to his home, that is, to his heart; that he might see in himself things which he had not seen before; for a man despairing of salvation does not think that he can do at all what, when enlightened, he can easily accomplish.
Pseudo-Jerome · d. 9999Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
And He says to him, If thou enter into the town, tell it not to any one, that is, relate continually to thy neighbours thy blindness, but never tell them of thy virtue.
Pseudo-Jerome · d. 9999Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(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)

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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