Mark 8:22
A Two-stage Healing Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Jesus and asked him to touch him.
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- Matt 11:21 : 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- Mark 6:45 : 45 Walking on Water Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dispersed the crowd.
- Mark 2:3 : 3 Some people came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.
- Matt 8:3 : 3 He stretched out his hand and touched him saying,“I am willing. Be clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
- Matt 8:15 : 15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve them.
- Matt 9:29 : 29 Then he touched their eyes saying,“Let it be done for you according to your faith.”
- Mark 5:27-29 : 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 for she kept saying,“If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
- Mark 6:55-56 : 55 They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be. 56 And wherever he would go– into villages, towns, or countryside– they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
- Luke 9:10 : 10 The Feeding of the Five Thousand When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.
- Luke 10:13 : 13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
- John 1:44 : 44 (Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)
- John 12:21 : 21 So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested,“Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”
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- Mark 8:23-264 verses90%
23 He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyes and asked,“Do you see anything?”
24 Regaining his sight he said,“I see people, but they look like trees walking.”
25 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.
26 Jesus sent him home, saying,“Do not even go into the village.”
- Luke 18:35-373 verses82%
35 Healing a Blind Man As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.
36 When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was going on.
37 They told him,“Jesus the Nazarene is passing by.”
- Mark 7:32-343 verses82%
32 They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.
33 After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.
34 Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh,“Ephphatha”(that is,“Be opened”).
- John 9:13-153 verses79%
13 The Pharisees’ Reaction to the Healing They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.
14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)
15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied,“He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see.”
- John 9:1-22 verses79%
1 Healing a Man Born Blind Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him,“Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”
- Mark 10:46-472 verses79%
46 Healing Blind Bartimaeus They came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout,“Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
- Luke 18:40-434 verses78%
40 So Jesus stopped and ordered the beggar to be brought to him. When the man came near, Jesus asked him,
41 “What do you want me to do for you?” He replied,“Lord, let me see again.”
42 Jesus said to him,“Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.”
43 And immediately he regained his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.
- Mark 10:49-524 verses78%
49 Jesus stopped and said,“Call him.” So they called the blind man and said to him,“Have courage! Get up! He is calling you.”
50 He threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.
51 Then Jesus said to him,“What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man replied,“Rabbi, let me see again.”
52 Jesus said to him,“Go, your faith has healed you.” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the road.
- John 9:6-83 verses77%
6 Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes
7 and said to him,“Go wash in the pool of Siloam”(which is translated“sent”). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.
8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying,“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”
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22 Jesus and Beelzebul Then they brought to him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute. Jesus healed him so that he could speak and see.
- Matt 20:33-342 verses76%
33 They said to him,“Lord, let our eyes be opened.”
34 Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.
- Matt 9:27-304 verses75%
27 Healing the Blind and Mute As Jesus went on from there, two blind men began to follow him, shouting,“Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
28 When he went into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them,“Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him,“Yes, Lord.”
29 Then he touched their eyes saying,“Let it be done for you according to your faith.”
30 And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly warned them,“See that no one knows about this!”
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21 Then he said to them,“Do you still not understand?”
- Matt 15:30-312 verses74%
30 Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.
31 As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.
- John 9:10-112 verses74%
10 So they asked him,“How then were you made to see?”
11 He replied,“The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me,‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.”
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14 The Disciples’ Failure to Heal When they came to the crowd, a man came to him, knelt before him,
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26 Then they said to him,“What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?”
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30 Two blind men were sitting by the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted,“Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!”
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14 The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them.
- John 9:18-192 verses73%
18 Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.
19 They asked the parents,“Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”
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10 The Feeding of the Five Thousand When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.
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35 The Man’s Response to Jesus Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him,“Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
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21 At that very time Jesus cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind.
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27 But Jesus gently took his hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.