April 6, 2006

• Bethsaida

  I was reading Mark 9:22-26 and I found a puzzling action on the part of Jesus.  Jesus was in Bethsaida and a blind man was brought to him.  Jesus took the blind man outside of Bethsaida and healed him.  Jesus then told the man this, “Do not even enter the village.”  I was wondering why Jesus would take him outside of town and heal him and then tell him not to even go in the town.  I then found Matthew 11:21.  The verse reads: “Woe to you Chorazin! Woe to you Bethsaida! For if the miracles had occured in Tyre and Sidon which occured in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.”  I suspect the next verses after the account of healing the man was because Jesus was thinking of Bethsaida.  Jesus asks his disciples this question:  “Who do people say that I am?”  Are miracles happening in your town?  Why not?  Who do you say in Jesus? 

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