The Curing of Aram, the Blind Man

I've often wondered if the original longer 240 minute cut sheds any additional light on when Ed Wynn's character, Aram, actually has his blindness miraculously cured. In the present DVD cut, we have the scene in Nazareth by the well with Wynn talking to Von Sydow's Jesus, though as the camera pulls back, the viewer realized Von Sydow is no longer there, even though Wynn keeps talking as if he's there (even commenting how tall Jesus has become). I've always supposed this scene to be a visual analogy to the saying "a prophet is never accepted in his home," that is to say that Wynn's Aram cannot get past seeing Jesus as only the son of Joseph the carpenter, and not as the messiah. He sees without "seeing." We next see Aram at the raising of Lazarus scene, and given the double-take that David McCallum's Judas gives Wynn (I've always admired Stevens' framing of the scene, in that McCallum always has his back to the miracle and thus never "witnesses" it), I wonder if we are to surmise that this is the moment Aram regains his sight. If so, it kind of nicely complements the earlier well scene, in that Aram only finally gets his cure when he "sees" Jesus as the Messiah, and not merely as the man whom he once knew as a child.

Does anyone familiar with the original longer cut know if that version further clarifies this storyline?