Mark 8:24
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
KJV
καὶ ἀναβλέψας ἔλεγεν· βλέπω τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ὅτι ὡς δένδρα ὁρῶ περιπατοῦντας.
Greek NT
Et aspiciens, ait : Video homines velut arbores ambulantes.
Vulgate
And he looked up, and said, I see men; for I behold them as trees, walking.
ASV
And looking up, he said: I see men, as it were trees, walking.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βλέπω
blepo
verb · 132×
δένδρον
dendron
noun · 25×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
περιπατέω
peripateo
verb · 94×
ἀναβλέπω
anablepo
verb · 25×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×
Miracle
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1504Often Jesus asks the sick to believe.107 He makes use of signs to heal: spittle and the laying on of hands,108 mud and washing.109 The sick try to touch him, "for power came forth from him and healed them all."110 and so in the sacraments Christ continues to "touch" us in order to heal us.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 13:9 — For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
- Isa 29:18 — And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
- Isa 32:3 — And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
- John 3:9 — Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
- Judg 9:36 — And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.