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Mark's Two Stage Healing of Blind Men
In Mark 8 to 10, just after the close of that section, Jesus heals a blind man and he does it in two stages. And then Jesus healed a blind man again at the end of Mark 10. It's really fascinating. In the history of interpretation, Mark has been seen as a sloppy narrator,. A sloppy gospel composer, a sloppy writer. Not only is his greek really bad, but he forgets by the time he's writing Mark 10, he forgets that he's already included an episode of healing of a blind man. So for a long time, Mark was sort of looked down on in the history of interpretations. But I don't think that that's what's