Wednesday of Week 6 in Ordinary Time - Mark 8: 22-26
Daily Gospel Exegesis
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
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Mark 8: 22-26 - 'The blind man was cured and could see everything distinctly.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs::
- 1151 (in 'Signs and Symbols') - Signs taken up by Christ. In his preaching the Lord Jesus often makes use of the signs of creation to make known the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. He performs healings and illustrates his preaching with physical signs or symbolic gestures (abbreviated)
- 1504 (in 'Christ the Physician') - Often Jesus asks the sick to believe. He makes use of signs to heal: spittle and the laying on of hands, mud and washing. The sick try to touch him, “for power came forth from him and healed them all. And so in the sacraments Christ continues to “touch” us in order to heal us.
- 699 (in 'Symbols of the Holy Spirit') - The hand. Jesus heals the sick and blesses little children by laying hands on them (abbreviated)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome back to our podcast where we look at the gospel reading from today's |
| 0:15.8 | Mass and we provide an exegesis of it. What did it mean in its original context? |
| 0:21.8 | We're continuing today in the Gospel of Mark. So we're in Mark chapter 8, verses 22 to 26. |
| 0:30.4 | Jesus and his disciples came to Beth Seda, and some people brought to him a blind man, |
| 0:36.6 | whom they begged him to touch. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village then putting spittle on his eyes and laying his hands on him he asked can you see anything |
| 0:51.9 | the man who was beginning to see replied, I can see people. |
| 0:56.5 | They look like trees to me, but they are walking about. |
| 1:00.9 | Then he laid his hands on the man's eyes again, and he saw clearly. |
| 1:05.8 | He was cured, and he could see everything plainly and distinctly. |
| 1:10.3 | And Jesus sent him home, saying, do not even go into the village. |
| 1:18.2 | So here we have an interesting healing story where Jesus, it appears, doesn't get it right |
| 1:23.8 | the first time. |
| 1:24.6 | He has to heal the man twice in order for it to be effective. |
| 1:28.2 | So let's think about the context. What's the last thing that happened in the Gospel of Mark? |
| 1:32.2 | It's when Jesus chided the disciples for their lack of faith. And he said that they're spiritually |
| 1:36.8 | blind. And so it's likely that Mark has placed this miracle story straight after that |
| 1:43.2 | to focus on the blindness aspect of it. |
| 1:46.8 | So what Mark is probably trying to emphasize here that the only cure for blindness, both physical |
| 1:52.5 | and spiritual, is Jesus. |
| 1:55.1 | So verse 22 here, they come to Beth Sadar. |
| 1:57.9 | So that's just north of the Sea of Galilee. |
| 2:00.1 | So Jesus has left the region of the Sea of Galilee. So Jesus has left the region |
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