Mark 8:25

Modern

Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and when he opened them his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.

Traditional

After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

Literal

Then He laid the hands upon his eyes again, and he opened his eyes, and he was restored, and he was seeing everything clearly.

Latin

Deinde iterum imposuit manus super oculos ejus: et cœpit videre: et restitutus est ita ut clare videret omnia.

Greek

English

Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and when he opened them his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.

The healing was not immediate. At first, the man saw imperfectly. After Jesus touched him a second time, he fully healed the man.

Who is this man who calms the sea and heals the blind? Peter reveals this in the next account. He is the Christ (8:29).

Earlier, Jesus and the disciples tried to go to Bethsaida but did not succeed (6:45). Here, they arrive, and Jesus heals a blind man. Only Mark describes this two-part healing. It might connect to how the disciples came to a new spiritual understanding in the next story (8:27–38).
John 1:44 says Bethsaida is the home of Peter, Andrew, James, and John (see also John 12:21). This small fishing village was officially part of Gaulanitis. But people usually considered it part of Galilee (John 12:21). It was relocated and given status as a city by Philip the Tetrarch (Josephus, Antiquities 18.2.1).

Proverbs 4:18
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
Philippians 1:6
…being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Matthew 13:12
Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.