Text:
Instead of dieblepsen ‘he looked intently’ of all modern editions of the Greek text, Textus Receptus has epoiēsen auton anablepsai ‘he made him see again.’
Instead of the neutral plural hapanta ‘all things’ of all modern editions of the Greek text, Textus Receptus has the masculine plural hapantas ‘all men.’
Exegesis:
For epethēken tas cheiras ‘he laid his hands upon’ cf. 5.23; for ophthalmous ‘eyes’ cf. 8.18.
kai dieblepsen kai apekatestē ‘and he looked intently and was restored,’ ‘and he saw clearly and was restored.’
diablepō (only here in Mark) ‘look intently’ (Revised Standard Version) or ‘see clearly,’ ‘see properly’ (Translator’s New Testament); others translate the word here ‘look hard,’ ‘look steadily,’ ‘stare straight ahead.’
apokathistamai (cf. 3.5) ‘be restored,’ ‘be made sound.’
kai eneblepen tēlaugōs hapanta ‘and he saw everything clearly.’
emblepō (10.21, 27; 14.67) ‘see.’
tēlaugōs (only here in the N.T.) ‘plainly,’ ‘clearly’; Moulton & Milligan define it ‘clearly from afar’ (cf. Taylor, Translator’s New Testament).
Translation:
In many languages, the first occurrence of he must be rendered as ‘Jesus,’ since the immediately preceding third person singular subject is the blind man. However, the second he must be changed to ‘the man,’ for this marks a change in subject. Of course, the reader can, with some care, determine these shifts from the context, but if in the receptor language it would be normal to mark such changes overtly, they should be so treated in the translation. This procedure is nothing more nor less than having the translation conform to the syntactic requirements of the language into which one is translating.
Restored may be ‘regained his sight,’ ‘his eyes were healed,’ or ‘finally he could see.’
Saw everything clearly is rendered in Tzeltal as ‘everything far off appeared clear,’ a normal way of talking about complete vision; cf. Toraja-Sa’dan ‘he gained certainty concerning everything when he saw it.’
Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on the Gospel of Mark. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1961. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .