Mark 8
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23. Led him out of the town. As he had taken the deaf man out of the crowd ( Mark 7:33 ). The Lord often sought to escape publicity. When he had spit on his eyes. I suppose that this unusual course was intended to develop in the man the faith which the Lord made the usual condition of healing.
24. I see men; for I behold them as trees, walking. Certain moving forms about him, but without the power of discerning their shape or magnitude; trees he should have accounted them from their height, but men from their motion.
25. Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes. This is the only example of a progressive cure. I suppose that it was an example of progressive faith. The Lord could have healed him with a word, but he wished to save the soul as well as the body.
26. Sent him away to his house. Evidently he did not live in Bethsaida, as he was forbidden to go into the town, or to tell the story there.
27-30. Jesus went forth . . . into the villages of Cæsarea Philippi. For notes on Peter's confession of Christ, see Matt. 16:13-20. Compare Luke 9:18-21 . Cæsarea Philippi was a heathen town, in the extreme north of Palestine, near the foot of Mount Hermon, and one of the sources of the Jordan.
31-38. He began to teach them, etc. For the first announcement of the suffering of our Lord, the rebuke of Peter, and the lesson concerning the cross, and saving the soul, see notes on Matt. 16:21-28. Compare Luke 9:22-27 . Verse 38 is peculiar to Mark in this connection, though given in Matthew 10:32 Matthew 10:33 , on which see notes.