Mark 8:25
New International Version
Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

New Living Translation
Then Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes again, and his eyes were opened. His sight was completely restored, and he could see everything clearly.

English Standard Version
Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

Berean Literal Bible
Then He laid the hands upon his eyes again, and he opened his eyes and was restored, and he began to see everything clearly.

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

New King James Version
Then He put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly.

New American Standard Bible
Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.

NASB 1995
Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.

NASB 1977
Then again He laid His hands upon his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.

Amplified Bible
Then again Jesus laid His hands on his eyes; and the man stared intently and [his sight] was [completely] restored, and he began to see everything clearly.

Christian Standard Bible
Again Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes. The man looked intently and his sight was restored and he saw everything clearly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and he saw distinctly. He was cured and could see everything clearly.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He laid his hand again on his eyes and he was healed, and he saw everything clearly.

Contemporary English Version
Once again Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes, and this time the man stared. His eyes were healed, and he saw everything clearly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
After that again he laid his hands upon his eyes, and he began to see, and was restored, so that he saw all things clearly.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes a second time, and the man saw clearly. His sight was normal again. He could see everything clearly even at a distance.

Good News Translation
Jesus again placed his hands on the man's eyes. This time the man looked intently, his eyesight returned, and he saw everything clearly.

International Standard Version
Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again, and he saw clearly. His sight was restored, and he saw everything perfectly, even from a distance.

Literal Standard Version
Afterward again He put [His] hands on his eyes, and made him look up, and he was restored, and discerned all things clearly,

Majority Standard Bible
Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes and made him look up, and his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.

New American Bible
Then he laid hands on his eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly.

NET Bible
Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again. And he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he looked intently and his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

New Heart English Bible
Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He made him look up, and was restored, and saw everything clearly.

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

Weymouth New Testament
Then for the second time He put His hands on the man's eyes, and the man, looking steadily, recovered his sight and saw everything distinctly.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Afterwards again he put his hands on his eyes, and made him look up, and he was restored, and discerned all things clearly,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Blind Man at Bethsaida
24The man looked up and said, “I can see the people, but they look like trees walking around.” 25Once 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. 26Jesus sent him home and said, “Do not go back into the village.”…

Cross References
Mark 8:24
The man looked up and said, "I can see the people, but they look like trees walking around."

Mark 8:26
Jesus sent him home and said, "Do not go back into the village."

Acts 1:10
They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.

Acts 14:9
This man was listening to the words of Paul, who looked intently at him and saw that he had faith to be healed.


Treasury of Scripture

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

and saw.

Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Matthew 13:12
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

Philippians 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

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Mark 8
1. Jesus feeds the people miraculously;
10. refuses to give a sign to the Pharisees;
14. admonishes his disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod;
22. gives a blind man his sight;
27. acknowledges that he is the Jesus who should suffer and rise again;
34. and exhorts to patience in persecution for the profession of the gospel.














(25) Every man.--The better MSS. give "all things." Clearly.--This is probably the right rendering of the true reading; but the received text gives a word which implies that he was far, as well as clear, sighted.

Verse 25. - Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes, and made him look up - this is the Authorized Version rendering of ἐποίησεν αὐτον ἀναβλέψαι: but the better authenticated reading is simply καὶ διέβλεψε, and he looked steadfastly - and was restored, and saw all things clearly. Now, here it pleased our Lord, not suddenly, but by degrees, to give perfect sight to this blind man. And this he did

(1) that he might give examples of different kinds of miracles, showing that" there are differences of operations," and that he, as sovereign Lord, was not absolutely tied to any one particular method of working; and

(2) that he might administer his power in increasing measures, as the faith of the recipient waxed stronger; that so he might gradually kindle greater hope and desire in him. It may be that the spiritual condition of this blind man was one which specially needed this gradual method of treatment. Our Lord was a wise and skillful Physician. At first he healed him in part, as one who imperfectly believed; that he who as yet saw little with a little sight, might believe more perfectly, and so be healed at last more perfectly; and thus by this miracle Christ teaches us that for the most part the unbeliever and the sinner is by degrees illuminated by God, so as to advance step by step in the knowledge and worship of God. "By this miracle," says Bede, "Christ teaches us how great is the spiritual blindness of man, which only by degrees, and by successive stages, can come to the light of Divine knowledge." The experiences of this blind man in gradually recovering his eyesight show as in a parable the stages of the spiritual change from absolute darkness to glimmering light, and thence to bright and clear vision. Cornelius a Lapide says, "We see an example of this in children and scholars, who must be taught and instructed by degrees. Otherwise, if the master, impatient of delay and labour, seeks to deliver all things to them at once, he will overwhelm their mind and their memory, so that they will take in nothing; as wine, when it is poured into a narrow-necked vessel, if you attempt to pour in the whole at once, scarcely any will enter, but almost all is wasted." A Lapide adds the well-known Italian proverb, "Piano, piano, siva lontano."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Once again
Εἶτα (Eita)
Adverb
Strong's 1534: A particle of succession, then, moreover.

[Jesus] placed
ἐπέθηκεν (epethēken)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2007: To put, place upon, lay on; I add, give in addition. From epi and tithemi; to impose.

[His]
τὰς (tas)
Article - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

hands
χεῖρας (cheiras)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 5495: A hand.

on
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

[the man’s]
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

eyes,
ὀφθαλμοὺς (ophthalmous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3788: The eye; fig: the mind's eye. From optanomai; the eye; by implication, vision; figuratively, envy.

and when
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

he opened them
διέβλεψεν (dieblepsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1227: To see through, see clearly. From dia and blepo; to look through, i.e. Recover full vision.

[his sight] was restored,
ἀπεκατέστη (apekatestē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 600: From apo and kathistemi; to reconstitute.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

he could see
ἐνέβλεπεν (eneblepen)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1689: From en and blepo; to look on, i.e. to observe fixedly, or to discern clearly.

everything
ἅπαντα (hapanta)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 537: All, the whole, altogether. Absolutely all or every one.

clearly.
τηλαυγῶς (tēlaugōs)
Adverb
Strong's 5081: Clearly, distinctly, plainly. Adverb from a compound of a derivative of telos and auge; in a far-shining manner, i.e. Plainly.


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