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A Practical Command
Multiple commentators explain that Jesus's command for the man to go home and avoid the village was a practical one. He sought to avoid creating a public frenzy, which would attract the wrong kind of attention from the crowds and hostile religious leaders, allowing Him to control the timing of His ministry.
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Albert Barnes
On Mark 8:26
18th Century
Theologian
The town. The town of Bethsaida.
Nor tell it, etc. So that it would not excite the jealousy of the Pharisees, and produce c…
AT Robertson
On Mark 8:26
To his home (εις οικον αυτου). A joyful homecoming that. He was not allowed to enter the village and create excitement before Jesu…
Charles Ellicott
On Mark 8:26
19th Century
Bishop
Neither go into the town.—As in other works of healing, so in this, our Lord seems to have prescribed quietude after, as …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Mark 8:22–26
19th Century
Preacher
"Your house is outside Bethsaida, so go around, and get home without going into the town; and if any of your neighbors come to see you, say nothing…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Mark 8:26
Jesus then ordered the man to go home directly without first going into the town of Bethsaida, perhaps because he did not want this man broadcastin…
John Calvin
On Mark 8:26
16th Century
Theologian
And he sent him away to his house. Christ does not allow him to return to Bethsaida, where there were many who had seen the mirac…
John Gill
On Mark 8:26
17th Century
Pastor
And he sent him away to his house
Which seems to have been in one of the neighbouring villages or was one of the hou…
Matthew Henry
On Mark 8:22–26
17th Century
Minister
Here is a blind man brought to Christ by his friends. In this, the faith of those who brought him appeared. If those who are spiritually blind do n…