The blind man of Bethsaida
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The Blind Man of Bethsaida is a story told only in Mark 8:22-26. When Jesus came to the Galilean town of Bethsaida, he was asked to heal a blind man. Jesus led him out of town. His first blessing led to a partial restoration of the man's sight. He could see people, but they looked like trees. Jesus gave him a second blessing, which resulted in perfect eyesight, and then instructed the man not to return to town and to tell no one about his healing. In Matthew 11:21 and Luke 10:13, Jesus supposedly proclaims, "Woe unto thee, Bethsaida!" for not repenting in spite of the "mighty works" performed there. The authenticity of this saying is dubious, since this healing is the one and only "mighty work" in Bethsaida recorded anywhere, and Jesus took pains to minimize the number of witnesses and to prevent any publicity.
Edit: John 5:1-15 tells of the healing of an invalid man at a pool called Bathesda. Some manuscripts call the pool Bethsiada. If this is the same Bathsaida as the one mentioned above then a great number of mighty works were preformed there even before the time Jesus walked the Earth. John 5:4, which is contained only in the footnotes of NIV bibles because it is only recorded in later manuscripts, but is believed to be an add-in by scribes to clarify the reason for the invalid man being at the pool for readers unfimiliar to the pool's history, says, "From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease he had." -This edit was done by Nathan Rogers of Stafford, Va.
