99 matching verse commentaries
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed. Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; Surely, this legion of demons must have had the same effect on them as on the poor man when Christ first came to him. These foolish people took up the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the whole multitude,.... For it seems, a very large number of people were presently gathered together, from all parts of the country, upon the report of the swine herds, who fled, it is very likely, some one way, and some another: of the country of the Gadarenes round about; of the country that was round about Gadara. The Vulgate Latin reads,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again. Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying, Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now the man out of whom the devils were departed,.... Sensible of the power of Christ, and of the favour he had received from him, was of a quite different mind from his countrymen: and besought him that he might be with him; [See comments on Mr 5:18]. But Jesus sent him away; from him, into the country: saying, as follows.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Return to thine own house,.... Which very likely was in the city of Gadara, whither he went, and throughout the whole of which he published the account of the dispossession of the devils from him: Mark adds, "to thy friends"; relations, acquaintance, and countrymen: and show how great things God hath done unto thee; for none but God could effect...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And it came to pass, that when Jesus was returned,.... From the country of the Gadarenes, to the other side of the sea of Tiberias, to Galilee; and particularly to his own city, Capernaum; Matthew 9:1. The people gladly received him; who were of a different cast from those he had just left; being sensible of the benefits they received from him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him. And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: for he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And behold, there came a man named Jairus,.... [See comments on Mr 5:22]. and he was a ruler of the synagogue; at Capernaum; and it was the more remarkable, that such an one should come to Christ, and express any regard to his person, or faith in his power, and therefore a "behold" is prefixed to this account; [See comments on Matthew 9:18]. And...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him. Notice the word “behold,” for this was a wonder that a man so...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he had one only daughter,.... And so exceedingly dear to him: about twelve years of age; [See comments on Matthew 9:18] And she lay a dying, or "was near death", as the Syriac and Persic versions; or "was just ready to die", as the Ethiopic version. The Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions render it, "she was dead", or "now dead", and which...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years,.... The Persic version reads, "there was a woman in that city", c. in the city of Capernaum [See comments on Matthew 9:20]. Which had spent all her living upon physicians; she had applied to one physician and another, and had consumed all her substance in this way: neither could be healed of any;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. This disease laughs at the physicians, and whenever a cure has been effected it has always been a slow one. Hence the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Came behind him,.... In the press and crowd of people, being ashamed to come before him, and tell him her case: and touched the border of his garment the fringe the Jews were obliged to wear at the bottom of their garments, Numbers 15:38 and which the more religious sort did, for by this they were distinguished from the common people: it is asked...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jesus said, who touched me?.... This he said, not as ignorant of the person that had done it, but in order to discover her to the people, and the cure she had received, as well as her faith; [See comments on Mr 5:30]. When all denied; both the disciples and the multitude, as many as were near him, and who might be thought to have done it; all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? What impudence on their part! Doubtless there are many things we say of our Lord, and even to him in prayer, that are very far from such words as he should have from his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jesus said, somebody hath touched me,.... Not in a common and accidental way, but with design, and in the strength of faith: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me: for the cure of the person that had touched him, and that not without his knowledge and will; [See comments on Lu 6:19].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when the woman saw that she was not hid,.... From Christ, among the crowd, nor the thing that she had done. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "that he had not forgot her"; she hoping he would be diverted from taking any notice of her and her action, through the crowd of people about him; she came trembling; for fear of the anger and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. Here is a second confessor. First, there was a man healed; now, here is a woman healed. Both sexes may now hear from them what Christ can...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said unto her, daughter,.... Instead of frowning upon her, and chiding her for what she had done, he addressed her in a very affable and affectionate manner; bidding her be of good comfort; and not be afraid; this clause is left out in the Vulgate Latin version, as in Mr 5:34 but is in the copies, and other versions: thy faith hath made...