The account of Jesus healing a blind man in Mark 8:22–26 has a number of similarities to this one.1 For example, in both accounts the crowd asks Jesus for help, and Jesus takes the patient away and heals him in private; in both Jesus specifically touches the organs that are affected; and in both Jesus uses saliva. It is clear that these two events have a similar ordering of events
and a common vocabulary
.2
31 Jésus quitta le territoire de Tyr, et revint par Sidon vers la mer de Galilée, en traversant le pays de la Décapole.