Mark 8:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Regaining his sight he said,“I see people, but they look like trees walking.”

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  • Judg 9:36 : 36 Gaal saw the men and said to Zebul,“Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills.” But Zebul said to him,“You are seeing the shadows on the hills– it just looks like men.”
  • Isa 29:18 : 18 At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.
  • Isa 32:3 : 3 Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.
  • 1 Cor 13:9-9 : 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

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