The FaithOfJesus2 Daily Devotional
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kjv@Revelation:14:12
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kjv@Mark:8:22 kjv@Mark:8:23 kjv@Mark:8:24 kjv@Mark:8:25 kjv@Mark:8:26 Bethsaida is also the home town of Phillip and brothers Andrew and Peter. It is curious that home towns of Nazareth (which attempted to rush Jesus off the face of a cliff) and Bethsaida would become so hostile toward the gospel being fulfilled in their midst. Accounts suggest that this Bethsaida could also be the Bethsaida near to where the five thousand were fed, those people following immediately after to make Jesus their king only to be rebuked by Jesus, it not being according to the Father's purposes. If all this context aligns properly as I am proposing, we may be witnessing the will of a multitude (this town) much like an that of an individual behaving as a solid entity (perhaps infantile) lashing out against He who stepped on it's own intentions. Yes they had wanted for Jesus to be king once, but that having been firmly rejected became for them reason to reject Him back with near violence. For disciples Phillip Andrew and Peter, Jesus had warned them all that their enemies likely would become their own brethren. You can imagine the sense of these men that it was no longer safe for a blind man restored of his sight to remain in their town because he had been restored by their Jesus. It is quite possible that the man's harassment could be at the hands of their own blood. The question remaining to this hypothesis is who are "they" that brought him to be touched? It may be as simple as the solid entity being a majority and not a unanimous block. Our hope like Abraham's is that there can at least be found ten righteous people resident to spare a town from judgment, the reality is there is probably much less. What trouble did "they" stir up by bringing the blind man here? The alternative context is that the man being set aside and redirected by Jesus had nothing to do with the townsfolk, perhaps rather having to do with him. It is almost to dampen his new excitement saying okay you can see, now you have to leave. Where does the remainder of the context then fit in? I would have to think hard about that. Further Resources: Comment Board:Mark:8:22-26
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