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April 22, 2010
Jesus’ two-step healing of the blind man in Mark 8 pointed to the disciples’ limited ability to understand who He was. They needed Jesus to heal them as well. From this text, Alistair Begg explains the absolute necessity of divine intervention for both physical and spiritual recovery. On their own, the disciples could not wrap their minds around the idea of a suffering Messiah. All people need the same divine help to see the cross’s power.
22And they came jto Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. 23And khe took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when khe had lspit on his eyes and mlaid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” 24And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.” 25Then Jesus3 laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26And he sent him to his home, saying, n“Do not even enter the village.”
27oAnd Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28And they told him, p“John the Baptist; and others say, qElijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, r“You are sthe Christ.” 30tAnd he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
31uAnd he began to teach them that vthe Son of Man must wsuffer many things and xbe rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and yafter three days rise again. 32And he said this zplainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
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