Bible verse
The man looked up and said, “I can see the people, but they look like trees walking around.”
Mark 8:24 · BSB
The verses around it, from Mark 8.
20 “And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Seven,” they said.
21 Then He asked them, “Do you still not understand?”
22 When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
23 So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him. “Can you see anything?” He asked.
24 The man looked up and said, “I can see the people, but they look like trees walking around.”
25 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.
26 Jesus sent him home and said, “Do not go back into the village.”
27 Then Jesus and His disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way, He questioned His disciples: “Who do people say I am?”
28 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”
KJV
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
ASV
And he looked up, and said, I see men; for I behold them as trees, walking.
ERV
And he looked up, and said, I see men; for I behold them as trees, walking.
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