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Christ Healing the Blind Man by A. Mironov.. The Blind Man of Bethsaida is the subject of one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels.It is found only in Mark 8:22–26. [1] [2] The exact location of Bethsaida in this pericope is subject to debate among scholars but is likely to have been Bethsaida Julias, on the north shore of Lake Galilee.
Jesus does not explain any further, and they travel to Bethsaida, where they come upon a blind man. He puts spittle on the man's eyes and the man can partially see; then he touches his eyes again and he is totally healed. This miracle is only related in Mark. This entire sequence, along with the preceding chapter, shows Jesus' work with gentiles.
In each of these stories, a blind beggar hears that Jesus is passing by, and cries out "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me". The crowd rebukes the beggar, but Jesus calls him forward and heals him with a word, or by touching his eyes. [13] In another story in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus heals a blind man of Bethsaida by rubbing spittle into ...
In most cases, Christian authors associate each miracle with specific teachings that reflect the message of Jesus. [10]In The Miracles of Jesus, H. Van der Loos describes two main categories of miracles attributed to Jesus: those that affected people (such as Jesus healing the blind man of Bethsaida), or "healings", and those that "controlled nature" (such as Jesus walking on water).
According to John 1:44, Bethsaida was the hometown of the apostles Peter, Andrew, and Philip. In the Gospel of Mark (Mark 8:22–26), Jesus reportedly restored a blind man's sight at a place just outside the ancient village of Bethsaida.
Several manuscripts of the Gospel include a passage considered by many textual critics to be an interpolation added to the original text, explaining that the disabled people are waiting for the "troubling of the waters"; some further add that "an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made ...
Bethsaida: Mark 8:22–26 includes the account of the healing of the "Blind man of Bethsaida". [19] Cana: John 2:1–11 includes the marriage at Cana during which Jesus performs his first miracle. [20] [21]
The story is sometimes thought of as a loose adaptation of one in the Gospel of Mark, of the healing of a blind man called Bartimaeus, but in fact is a different story, The healing of Bartimaeus takes place near Jericho, involves two men who call out from the roadside as Jesus passes by, and comes later in Matthew 20:29-34. In Matthew 9, the ...