Healing The Blind Man in Mark

In Mark 8:22-26 we read a very unusual situation where a blind man is brought to Jesus for healing. Jesus spits in his eyes and prays for him but he sees people walking around like trees. Jesus prays for the blind man again and he sees clearly. What is the meaning behind this event? This video is a simple explanation that removes the mystery from this story! Scripture references: Mark 8:22-26, Rev 3:18, John 9:6&11, Isaiah 61:3, Daniel 4, Matthew 21:18-22, Song of Solomon 2:3, Isaiah 32:16, 2 Corinthians 9:10, Philippians 1:11, Hebrews 12:11 & James 3:18. Text quoted from the New King James Version. #Blind man and walking trees #Receiving sight #Jesus opens our eyes

[@rinalore9416]

I've been seeing people walking around looking like robots and have no time for the Lord and that really saddens me, I don't even see kids in Parks or riding bicycles anymore and that saddens me. They are all fruitless trees it seems to me. You're right, those passages are quite extraordinary and you opened up my eyes more. Thanks for sharing and may the Lord keep blessing and protecting you.

[@loudantproductions5407]

Wow! A very interesting perspective! Thanks for the comment.

[@ilove7272011]

Good word brother 😊

[@alexis_prays]

Thank you for this ❤️❤️

[@rellikguitars7237]

Thanks Anthony 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@stevexpfoster]

I remembered this story when I had an Optician appointment, and he shone a light in my eye at an incidental angle. I saw my retina superimposed over the eye chart in front of me. The very delicate twigs and branches of the blood vessels made the eye chart look like a tree. I was so surprised the Optician asked what had happened and I told him about Mark 8v24. "That's interesting" he said "..the blood vessels lie in front of the rods and cones receptors, making a tree like mask that the brain learns to compensate for." I believe Jesus expected this and was waiting for the brain to catch up with its new eyesight.

[@loudantproductions5407]

Very interesting! We certainly are fearfully and wonderfully made!

[@lanabowers5332]

The real event recorded in this way took place on Friday, September 19, 32AD, on the last day of a period of feasts & councils in which all of the tensions besetting the mission had come to a head. It was at this season that the crises began that led 6 months later to the crucifixion. The 'healing of the blind man' was a consequence of one of the interrelated events. It's historical meaning was that, following a decisive breach between Jesus & his brother James, Jesus went over James' head & appointed his next brother Joses, to the pisition of his deputy & crown prince. At the sectarian observance of the Day of Atonement on September 12 of that year, there had been a renewal of the schism between the house of Agrippa & the house of Antipas. Agrippa has allied himself once more with the Pharisees, alienating the Sadducees. Jonathan Annas had been deposed from the position of supreme priest that he had held since the death of the Baptist. Once more, the question of Jesus' legitimacy arose. Agrippa renounced the decision he had made the previous year, declared James rhe true David, & Jesus illegitimate. Jesus did not help his own case when, in the midst of the Atonement ceremonies, he took a line that iiwas all his own, donning the vestments of the High Prieat & insisting on enacting a ceremony of the Atonement himself, again claiming equality with the Aaronite priesthood. (the 'Transfiguration' event) But he was quelled by Simon Magus, who himself had seized the posirion of Pope. Simon needed Jesus' help & his influence with Gentiles. He hailed Jesus as his 'Beloved Son', the true David, & from this point there were 2 men, Jesus & James, both claiming to be the potential Christ. Jesus could no longer say that James was his deputy & crown prince, as he had done previously. Once again he disregarded protocol, & appointed his next brorher, Joses, whose opinion agreed with his. The brothers of Jesus, who were called 'the princes of Judah' in the Scrolls, had received by birth some of the lesser duties, including superviosion of the 'Lame & Blind'. The term, when used metaphorically, meant men whose ascetic rule allowed them to be mendicants begging for gifts. The first prince, James, taught the higher class, & was himself called the 'Lame Man', & the 2d prince, Joses, taught the next class & was called the 'Blind Man'. The 1st prince could, on some occasions, stand at the podium, the 'eyes' in the imagery of the Heavenly Man', to give teaching, the enlightenment that comes from learning. When the David acted as a priest to Gentiles, the crown prince was his 'levite'. The prince could in this position 'see', for members when they were instructed 'saw the light'. But if rhe 2d prince came up to stand in this position as if he were the 1st prince, it would be against all the rights of birth. It was as if the blind could see. Jesus action in making such appointment was the cause of the intense debate that followed. Joses was sent to wash in 'Siloam', the pool for 'Apostles'. Since all places at Qumran reproduced places in Jerusalem, 'Siloam' was the large cistern in the SW area, which was used by celibates after episodes of uncleanness. As a teacher, Joses would have a lamp, called 'eyes' because it was held at the level of the eyes & used at the podium, to aid in reading the scriptures & teaching. To 'lift up the eyes' meant to hold such a lamp, & if the 'eyes were opened', the shutter of the lamp was opened to let the light shine out. But this kind of lamp was used by Jewish teachers, & it had now been agreed that a different kind of lamp should be used, an oil lamp made of clay or earthenware, probably because it was a more humble one used by the village classes, to whom Gentiles were attached. Such lamps were subsequently used by the Christians in the catacombs in Rome. Joses' lamp was 'anointed' on this occasion, filled with oil & given a Christian association. Jesus used spittle on this & on a clay dish. It was a way of saying that Joses was appointed to the Rome province. Christian celibate communities imitated the Jewish ones in many respects, but they did not imitate immersion baths like the 'Siloam' exclusion cistern, which indicated an exteme degree of uncleanness associated with physical functions. They simply washed their hands, & so were said to have 'dry cleansing'. But by the same token, no Jewish 'holy water' was allowed in the Rome province, that of the oppressors. A Jewish leader touched with spittle objects intended for sacred use, to transmit to them his own identity, the action could be secretly interpreted as an rxpreswion of hostility to the pagan power. When the man's 'parents' were called in the story, it was a way of talking about James, who, in the role of the David was an 'Adam', the '1st parent'.

[@loudantproductions5407]

Beware of myths and fables regarding popes, hierarchy and other nonsense invented by the Roman Catholic 'Church'. These academic teachings on the surface sound good but they have been abused prolifically over the centuries. There in no pope or hierarchy. Jesus never instituted it. He calls the Roman Catholic Church and it's associates a 'Harlot in Revelation'.

[@robertgroves8691]

Can I ask - where did you get all this from? (I’m not mocking - I’m genuinely intrigued on what your source material is and how it’s considered authoritative/reliable). There is so much context you have provided which are not included in any of the Gospels (of any denomination). How do you have information right down to the specific date of events??? I am genuinely not looking to mock or provoke you in any way. I’m genuinely sceptical- but respect you have a different view on these events and I’d like to learn more on what you base your perspective on in this regard. Hoping you may be willing to take a moment to share your thoughts. God bless 🙏

[@tookie36]

I think the blind man is seeing people carrying crosses. A few verses later Jesus says to follow him you must carry your cross. And Paul in Galatians talks about the curse of being hung from a tree. So by that time people were already relating trees to the cross/crucifixion. (Pole for the Jehovahs) Mark was writing on a whole other level and people mostly ignore the text all together 😢