sion, abandoned the work in which they were respectively en gaged with the greatest promptitude and obedience.
23. Ka/ ntpiri'ytv, x.r.X., And Jesus went about, etc.) Thus, also, clearly in ch. ix. 35. l — xyp vffauv, preaching) His teaching in the synagogues was public, but His preaching more public still. — See ch. x. 27, and xi. 1 ; comp. also Luke viii. 39 ; John iii. 2, 4. — rA Ei/ayylX/oi/, the Gospel) The chief teaching of Christ was the Gospel : the other things which He taught concerned only the removing impediments [to its saving reception]. — rr^ jSnfftXeiag, of the kingdom) sc. of God. In Holy Scripture God is the per petual object of contemplation. — vaaav, every) No one sick or dead, whom Jesus met, remained in sickness or death. — vfaov, disease) vdaoc, signifies a disease of the whole body : ^aXax/a, an infirmity of any particular part, attended with pain : /3a<ravos (ver. 24), a torture, or malady accompanied by excruciating pain : ^atfr/l- (Luke vii. 21), a scourge. — sv r& Xaw, among the people) Among the people of Israel : and it was among the people, p.g., in public,] that, as the sick were promiscuously brought to Him, even those were healed whose disease was a matter of public notoriety ; see John ix. 8, and Acts iii. 10. But in the case of miracles of later times, men, or dumb images, to whom they are pretended to have happened, are thrust forth from some obscure nook or other by collusion.
24. 'ATTJX^EI', went out thence) sc. afar. — dxoj}, fame) The LXX. frequently render nyo^2 by axoy. — Zupiav, Syria) The province of which Palestine was considered a part. — irpoeyvfyxav Aurw, they brought unto Him) Even the Syrians did so. — Toug xa,Ku$ i^ovras, those who were ill)* The miracles of Jesus Christ were performed for the good4 of men. — See John vi. 2 ; Matt. xi. 5 ; Acts
1 See also Mark vi. 6 ; Acts x. 38, etc. It was by this system that He, in so short a ministry, benefited a vast multitude of men by His teaching and miracles; thereby He the more trained His disciples; and, moreover, produced this effect, that men, so far from being weary of Him, even from time to time conceived the stronger yearning desire after Him. — Harm., p. 235, 236.
2 rwittB and ny^sj prop, that which is heard : hence (1), a message, tidings, whether joyful or sorrowful, especially a message sent from God: hence (2), i.q. instriiction, teaching doctrine; (3), rumour. — GESENICS. — (I. B.)
3 "Male habentes." — (I. B.)
4 Salutem, health or salvation — i.e, they were [with rare exceptions]