Mark Chapter 8 verse 26 Holy Bible
And he sent him away to his home, saying, Do not even enter into the village.
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And he sent him away to his house, saying, Do not even go into the town.
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And he sent him to his house, saying, Neither enter into the village, nor tell [it] to any one in the village.
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And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.
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He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village."
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and he sent him away to his house, saying, `Neither to the village mayest thou go, nor tell `it' to any in the village.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 26. - This verse, according to the best reading, runs thus: And he sent him away to his home, saying, Do not even enter into the village. It thus appears that Bethsaida was not the home of this blind man. He might naturally have wished to exhibit himself in Bethsaida, where many must have known him, and to have sung the praises of his great Benefactor. But this was far from what Christ wished. He wished to be in seclusion. He had no desire to excite more than could be helped the idle curiosity of the multitude. His miracles were for the sake of his doctrine, and not his doctrine for the sake of his miracles. The whole character of his administration was retiring and gentle. "My doctrine shall distil as the dew." "He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any hear his voice in the streets."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) Neither go into the town.--As in other works of healing, so in this, our Lord seems to have prescribed quietude after, as well as before, the miracle, as a spiritual discipline--partly, we may believe, because the work that had been done called for prayer for the right use of the new, or the restored, power; partly (as in Matthew 12:16), because He would not seem Himself to court the fame of publicity. Following the line of thought taken in the Note on Mark 8:24, we may extend the application to the work of spiritual illumination. Here also it is not good that the first clear apprehension of spiritual truths should be followed by the hasty utterances of the excitement of the new-born life.
