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26And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

Mark 8:26

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

  • And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.

  • And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

  • And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

  • And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-26)

This cure is related only by this evangelist, and there is something singular in the circumstances. I. Here is a blind man brought to Christ by his friends, with a desire that he would touch him , Mark 8:22. Here appears the faith of those that brought him—they doubted not but that one touch of Christ’s hand would recover him his sight; but the man himself showed not that earnestness for, or expec…

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