They came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.  He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; and when he had put saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Can you see anything?"  And the man looked up and said, "I can see people, but they look like trees, walking."  Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he looked intently and his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.  Then he sent him away to his home, saying, "Do not even go into the village."

When Jesus teaches he gathers people together.  When he heals a person he does so in private.  When he brought Jairus' daughter back from the dead he first put everyone out of the house except the girl's parents.  (Mark 5.35-42)  The people he put out of the house were laughing at him.  In this miracle of the healed blind man, Jesus first takes the man out of the village of Bethsaida.  We know from Matthew 11.21 that Bethsaida was an evil, faithless place.  We also know from Mark 6.5 that lack of faith distresses Jesus so much that it sometimes prevents him from performing miracles.

So with the greatest intimacy Jesus grasps the man by the hand and leads him out of the faithless village and away from prying eyes.  There, on the outskirts of the village, Jesus restores the man to sight.  That he may be given the opportunity to contemplate what God has done for him he is told to return to his home, there to find faith and prayer.  If he were to return to the village, the seed of faith which was germinating in his soul from this miracle would perhaps have died in the circus-like amusement and doubt of Bethsaida over what occurred.  So it is with every soul which Christ touches so profoundly.  It wants to go away into the solitude, there to be alone with the Beloved and contemplate the wonders of his intimacy with the soul.  If it were to return again too quickly into busy interactions with others and under prying eyes, the moment for private worship, gratitude and contemplation of God's intimate acts would be gone.