And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.
Mark 8:26 concludes Mark's account of Jesus healing a blind man by opening his eyes and sending him home. The healing took place as Jesus went out from Bethsaida toward the villages of Caesarea Philippi. The man's sight returned in stages, at first seeing people only indistinctly as moving trees. After restoring his sight, Jesus sent the man to his house with the charge neither to go into the town nor to tell anyone in the town. That charge to stay quiet reflects the unobtrusive, nonpublic character of Christ's ministry foretold in Isaiah 42:2. The healing displays Christ's power and benevolence in relieving human suffering without selfish ambition.
The healing shows Christ as willing to forgive sinners who come to Him, to heal and restore the sick as He gave health to the leper and hearing to the deaf, and to comfort the troubled as the great Comforter. The verse belongs to Mark 6 to 13, which gives lessons of life from Christ to take home to the heart and should be compared with the parallel accounts in the other gospels. The recorded miracles are only a small part of those He worked, recorded to give comfort to every class of people, showing that God is the God of all who seek Him and not of the Hebrew people alone.
Mark 8:26 concludes Mark's account of Jesus healing a blind man by opening his eyes and sending him home. The healing took place as Jesus went out from Bethsaida toward the villages of Caesarea Philippi. The man's sight returned in stages, at first seeing people only indistinctly as moving trees. After restoring his sight, Jesus sent the man to his house with the charge neither to go into the town nor to tell anyone in the town. That charge to stay quiet reflects the unobtrusive, nonpublic character of Christ's ministry foretold in Isaiah 42:2. The healing displays Christ's power and benevolence in relieving human suffering without selfish ambition.
The healing shows Christ as willing to forgive sinners who come to Him, to heal and restore the sick as He gave health to the leper and hearing to the deaf, and to comfort the troubled as the great Comforter. The verse belongs to Mark 6 to 13, which gives lessons of life from Christ to take home to the heart and should be compared with the parallel accounts in the other gospels. The recorded miracles are only a small part of those He worked, recorded to give comfort to every class of people, showing that God is the God of all who seek Him and not of the Hebrew people alone.