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Christ Healing the Blind Man by A. Mironov.. The Blind Man of Bethsaida is the subject of one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels.It is found only in Mark 8:22–26. [1] [2] The exact location of Bethsaida in this pericope is subject to debate among scholars but is likely to have been Bethsaida Julias, on the north shore of Lake Galilee.
This miracle is only related in Mark. This entire sequence, along with the preceding chapter, shows Jesus' work with gentiles. Jesus fed Jewish listeners in Mark 6 and he most probably feeds a gentile crowd here, [12] although C. M. Tuckett argues that it is not certain that the crowd in chapter 8 is a gentile gathering. [22]
Its narration offers many parallels with the healing of the blind man of Bethsaida in Mark 8:22-26. Along with the mention of the naked fugitive in chapter 14, it is one of the few events recorded only in the Gospel of Mark and none of the other canonical gospels.
According to John 1:44, Bethsaida was the hometown of the apostles Peter, Andrew, and Philip.In the Gospel of Mark (Mark 8:22–26), Jesus reportedly restored a blind man's sight at a place just outside the ancient village of Bethsaida.
Bethsaida: Mark 8:22–26 includes the account of the healing of the "Blind man of Bethsaida". [19] Cana: John 2:1–11 includes the marriage at Cana during which Jesus performs his first miracle. [20] [21]
It was also the site where Jesus healed a blind man (Mark 8:22-26). Capernaum: Often called Jesus' "own city" (Matthew 9:1), Capernaum served as the center for Jesus' Galilean ministry. It was home to a synagogue where Jesus taught and performed miracles.
Mark is the only gospel with the combination of verses in Mark 4:24–25: the other gospels split them up, Mark 4:24 being found in Luke 6:38 and Matthew 7:2, Mark 4:25 in Matthew 13:12 and Matthew 25:29, Luke 8:18 and Luke 19:26. The Parable of the Growing Seed. [99] Only Mark counts the possessed swine; there are about two thousand. [100]
The pericopae Mark shares with only Luke are also quite few: the Capernaum exorcism [20] and departure from Capernaum, [21] the strange exorcist, [22] and the widow's mites. [23] A greater number, but still not many, are shared with only Matthew, most notably the so-called "Great Omission" [24] from Luke of Mk 6:45–8:26.