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Mark 8:22-26

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Curing spiritual blindness.

I. DELIVERANCE FROM BLIND GUIDES.

II. TRANSFER OF CONFIDENCE TO THE TRUE GUIDE.

III. REVELATION OF THE INVISIBLE POWER OF GOD.

IV. EXERCISING THE SOUL'S NEWLY ACQUIRED POWERS OF SPIRITUAL VISION,

V. GIVING SPIRITUAL DIRECTION FOR THE FUTURE.—M.

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