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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jesus said unto them, come ye after me,.... Leave your worldly employments, and become my disciples, and I will make you to become fishers of men: which will be a much more excellent and honourable employment, as men, and the souls of men, are more excellent, and of more worth than fishes; [See comments on Matthew 4:19].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And straightway they forsook their nets,.... Which perhaps were their all; see Matthew 19:27. And followed him; both in a corporeal and spiritual sense; [See comments on Matthew 4:20].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he had gone a little further thence,.... From the place where Simon and Andrew were casting their nets, though still by the sea side; he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother. The former was be whom afterwards Herod killed with the sword, and the latter the beloved disciple; these were also fishermen: who also were in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. They never had cause to regret that they did so. Whatever they left, they were...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And straightway he called them,.... As soon as he saw them; for he was looking out for them, having appointed them long before to the service he now called them to; and they left their father Zebedee with the hired servants, and went after him. It might seem unnatural, had they left their father alone in the ship, to have taken the care and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they went into Capernaum,.... Jesus and his four disciples he had just called, Simon and Andrew, James and John; though the Arabic and Persic versions read, "he went"; that is, Christ; and so Beza says it was read in a certain copy: and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught; that is, immediately, as soon as he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. He did not do as the scribes did, who made a great parade of learning by quoting this Rabbi and the other, but Jesus said,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they were astonished at his doctrine,.... The nature and importance of it, it being what they had not been used to hear; only at best the doctrine of the law, and sometimes only the traditions of the elders, or an allegorical and traditional sense of the Scriptures, and things very trifling and unedifying: and also they were amazed at the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there was in their synagogue,.... In the synagogue of the Capernaites, at the same time that Jesus was teaching there, a man with an unclean spirit: not with an unclean heart, for there were doubtless many such there, but that had a devil; for in Lu 4:33, it is said, "he had a spirit of an unclean devil": so called, because he is impure in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, Let us alone; How often that is still the cry of sinners, “Let us alone. Why do not you hold your own views, and let us alone? “Yes the devils, and those whom they control, still say, “Let us alone.” But it is a part of the gospel to attack that which is not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Saying, let us alone, c.] Meaning with himself, the rest of the unclean spirits, that had possessed the bodies of men in Galilee, and in all Judea knowing that Christ had power to dislodge them, and fearing he would, entreats him he would let them alone, quietly to dwell in their beloved habitations: what have we to do with thee? They had nothing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, — He did not want any testimony from the devil. When a man of ill character once praised Plato, the philosopher said, “What can I have done wrong that such a fellow as that speaks well of me?” So...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jesus rebuked him,.... Checking his insolence, despising his flattery, and refusing to receive a testimony from him; and which he wanted not, lest it should be thought he had a familiarity and confederacy with him: saying, hold thy peace; stop thy mouth, I need no such witness as thine, nor thy praises; I am not to be soothed by thy flattery,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. For, if Satan must come out of a man, he will do him as much mischief as ever he can before he departs. His wrath is all the greater because his time is so short. “He worries whom he can’t devour, With a malicious...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when the unclean spirit had torn him,.... Not that he had torn any limb from him, or had made any wound in any part of his body; for Luke says, Lu 4:35, that he "hurt him not", but he shook him; and as Luke there says, "threw him in the midst", of the people, or synagogue; and so the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read here, "he cast...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they were all amazed,.... The people that were in the synagogue, who were met together for divine worship, were astonished, not only at his doctrine, as before, but at this miracle and power of his in casting out devils: insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, what thing is this? They spake among themselves, as Luke says, Lu...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him. It was the authority of his preaching which first astonished them; and then the authority with which he wrought his miracle, and subdued...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And immediately his fame spread abroad,.... Not only in the city of Capernaum, where these things were done, and where his fame was first spread, but also throughout all the region round about Galilee: and not only throughout Galilee, but throughout all the country that was bordering upon it, and adjacent to it; see Matthew 4:23. The Persic...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. Christ was a house-to-house missionary, as well as an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. “Immediately.” That is, as soon as Jesus had healed the man with an unclean spirit, his fame spread like wildfire. The miracle was reported from mouth to mouth till everybody in that region knew of it. It was said that the words and writings of Martin Luther were...