“And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.”
They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him — the blind man of Bethsaida is one of the most theologically significant healing narratives in Mark precisely because it happens in two stages — a unique occurrence in Jesus' healing ministry. The request is for touch — the same faith-expectation as the Gennesaret crowd (Mark 6:56). Bethsaida was the hometown of Philip, Andrew, and Peter (John 1:44), and a town that Jesus had condemned for its failure to respond to his miracles (Matthew 11:21).
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