Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Mark 8:22

"And they come unto Bethsaida. And they bring to him a blind man, and beseech him to touch him." — Mark 8:22 (ASV)

This incident, recorded only in Mark, takes place at Bethsaida. “Some people” brought a blind man to Jesus for healing. The fact that the initiative seems to have come more from the people who brought him than from the man himself may account for the way Jesus dealt with him (cf. 7:32ff.).