The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

THE OPENING OF THE EYES OF
ONE BLIND AT BETHSAIDA
"And he looked up
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and said, I see men as trees, walking."
Mark viii. 24.
OUR Lord knew well the pathos and loneliness of
having no one to understand Him or to sympathise
with Him. He had to say to all His disciples as He
once said to Philip, " Have I been so long time with
you, and yet have ye not known Me " They had
eyes only to see the hard surface of things ;
they had
no insight into the profound meanings of His
parables and miracles ; they were insensible to the
wonders of the eternal world in which He lived.
with all
And
His teaching He could not bring them out of
the spiritual darkness in which they were shrouded
into His own marvellous light. It is, therefore, not
without appropriate significance that the Evangelist
should have been led to record a miracle wrought
upon a blind man in immediate connection with our
Lord's complaint regarding the mental obtuseness of
the disciples, " How is it that ye do not understand
The miracle of curing physical blindness seems as if
it were intended as a sacrament or acted parable
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