Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 8:34
They besought him to depart out of their coasts — They loved their swine so much better than their souls! How many are of the same mind!
They besought him to depart out of their coasts — They loved their swine so much better than their souls! How many are of the same mind!
Verse Matthew 8:34. _THE WHOLE CITY CAME OUT_] Probably with the intention to destroy Jesus for having destroyed their swine; but, having seen him, they were awed by his presence; and only besought h...
The same account of the demoniacs substantially is found in Mark 5:1, and Luke 8:26. Matthew 8:28 THE OTHER SIDE - The other side of the Sea of Tiberias....
6. THE KING MANIFESTED BY SIGNS OF DIVINE POWER. Chapter s 8-9. CHAPTER 8 1. The Healing of the Leper. (Matthew 8:1 .) 2. The Healing of the Centurion's Servant. (Matthew 8:5 .) 3. The Healing of P...
THE GERASENE DEMONIACS (Mark 5:1 *, Luke 8:26) Mt. is considerably shorter than Mk.; note his summary of Mark 5:3 and omission of Mark 5:8;...
LOVE IN ACTION (Matthew 8:1-34) Of all the gospel writers Matthew is the most orderly. He never sets out his material haphazardly. If in Matthew one thing follows another in a certain sequence, there...
And, when he had come to the other side, to the territory of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, as they emerged from the tombs. They were very fierce, so that no one was able to pass by t...
THE WHOLE. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Genus), App-6, for the greater part. TO MEET. for. meeting with. Greek. _sunantesis._ Occurs only here, but. T Tr. WH read _hupantesin,_ which occu...
_that he would depart_ The motive for the request was fear lest a greater disaster should follow (Meyer)....
The Gadarene Demoniacs. St Mark 5:1-20; St Luke 8:26-39 St Mark and St Luke make mention of one demoniac only. St Mark relates the incident at greater length and with more particularity. St Matthew o...
ὙΠΆΝΤΗΣΙΝ for συνάντησιν. See notes _infra_. 34. ὍΠΩΣ ΜΕΤΑΒΗ͂Ι. The motive for the request was fear lest a greater disaster should follow (Meyer)....
THE GADARENE DEMONIACS Mark 5:1-20; Luke 8:26-39. St Mark and St Luke make mention of one demoniac only. St Mark relates the incident at greater length and with more particularity. St Matthew omits t...
Ver 28. And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that...
_MIRACLE OF HEALING THE DEMON-POSSESSED MATTHEW 8:28-34:_ Jesus also healed two very pitiful demon possessed men. These men were exceedingly fierce, living in the tombs. They were so fierce that no on...
ΈΞΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Matthew 8:28. ΎΠΆΝΤΗΣΝΝ (G5222) _acc. sing._, за которым следует _dat._ встреча. Это слово иногда используется для обозначения встречи почетных гостей за стенами города ...
AND THEY THAT KEPT THEM FLED— The miracle, issuing thus in the destruction of the swine, was immediately reported in the town and country by the affrighted keepers, who, as they fled, had fallen in, i...
Section 17 JESUS FREES THE GADARENE DEMONIACS (Parallels: Mark 5:1-20; Luke 8:26-39) TEXT: 8:28-9:1 28. And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two p...
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way....
25 Ever and anon, while revealing His own glory and exercising the faith of His followers, our Lord presents a marvelous prophetic picture of the course of the kingdom proclamation. Here we have a pre...
8:34 to (f-19) Or, more exactly, 'they begged him, so that he might go away.' see a similar expression in ch. 9.38....
THE HEALING OF THE GADARENE DEMONIACS (Mark 5:1; Luke 8:26). There are real difficulties in connexion with this narrative, but that upon which Professor Huxley laid so much stress in his controversy w...
THEY BESOUGHT HIM THAT HE WOULD DEPART] The drowning of 2,000 swine represented a considerable monetary loss, and they feared further losses if Jesus remained in their neighbourhood. It is not clear w...
THE LEPER CLEANSED. THE CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED. HEALING OF PETER'S WIFE'S MOTHER AND MANY OTHERS. STILLING OF THE TEMPEST. HEALING OF THE GADARENE DEMONIACS 1-4. Cleansing of the leper (Mark 1:40;...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 8 *MIRACLES WHEN JESUS HEALED PEOPLE 8:1–9:38 Matthew showed Jesus’ authority by what he taught in Chapter s 5-7. Now Matthew shows...
THE WHOLE CITY — _i.e.,_ the population of Gadara or Gerasa (more probably the former), according to the reading which we adopt in Matthew 8:28. St. Mark and St. Luke add, that they found the demoniac...
CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...
_Excursion to the eastern shore with its incidents_ (Mark 4:35 to Mark 5:20; Luke 8:22-39). These narratives make a large leap forward in the history. As our evangelist is giving a collection of heali...
_The demoniacs of Gadara_ (Mark 5:1-20; Luke 8:26-39). This narrative raises puzzling questions of all sorts, among them a geographical or topological one, as to the scene of the occurrence. The varia...
πᾶσα ἡ πόλις : an exaggeration of course, _cf._ accounts in Mark and Luke. εἰς ὑπάντησιν … Ι., to a meeting with Jesus. The noun occurs again in Matthew 25:1, and John 12:13; in Matthew 25:6 ἀπάντησιν...
_The sequel._ ἔφυγον : the swineherds fled. No wonder, in view of such a disaster. If the demoniacs, in the final paroxysm before return to sanity, had anything to do with bringing it about, the super...
AN UNWELCOME VISITOR Matthew 8:28-34 The demon spirit seems still to tenant the lives of human beings. To what else can we attribute the paroxysms of passion, the awful cruelties and inhumanities of...
The King passed down from the mountain and from teaching in order that He might bring the Kingdom nearer to His people, and give them examples of its benefits. What a wondrous application of His power...
And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought [him] that he would (g) depart out of their coasts. (g) Where men live as swine, there Christ does not abide,...
That he would depart from their coasts. St. Jerome thinks these people did this out of a motive of humility, looking upon themselves unworthy of his presence: others judge that the loss of the swine m...
THE DEMONIZED GADERENE Matthew 8:28-34; Matthew 9:1; Mark 5:1-21; and Mark 5:26-40. We visited this country of the Gadarenes, which com
We meet with the relation of this miracle, and somewhat more particularly enlarged, in Mark 5:1. I refer the Reader therefore to that part of my Commentary for my observations upon it. I only detain t...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_A TERRIBLE PRAYER_ ‘And when they saw Him, they besought Him that He would depart out of their coasts.’ Matthew 8:34 This is the most terrible prayer that ever man uttered to God. There was Christ...
Then, in chapter 8, the Lord begins in the midst of Israel His patient life of testimony, which closed with His rejection by the people whom God had so long preserved for Him, and for their own blessi...
AND BEHOLD, THE WHOLE CITY,.... The inhabitants of it, not every individual person, but the greater number of them, or, at least, a very great number of them. Luke says, "the whole multitude of the co...
And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought _him_ that he would depart out of their coasts. Ver. 34. _They besought him to depart_] This was as great madn...
_They that kept them went into the city, and told every thing_ And also _in the country, Luke 8:34_. They circumstantially related what had happened to the two demoniacs, and how the demons had been e...
Legion of devils. Matthew 8:28-34; MATTHEW 26:53....
BESOUGHT HIM THAT HE WOULD DEPART; probably from fear lest his miraculous power should work them still greater worldly losses. Men who are not literally "possessed of devils," may still be influenced...
AND, BEHOLD, THE WHOLE CITY CAME OUT TO MEET JESUS; AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM, THEY BESOUGHT HIM THAT HE WOULD DEPART OUT OF THEIR COASTS. The swineherds fled. The disaster that befell their herds sent th...
The result:...
Now the King comes down among the people from the height from which He had given them wise instruction. For He is not only their teacher: He will experience their sorrows, and show His heart of compas...
28-34 The devils have nothing to do with Christ as a Saviour; they neither have, nor hope for any benefit from him. Oh the depth of this mystery of Divine love; that fallen man has so much to do with...
Both Mark and Luke here add much. Mark saith, MARK 5:14, And they went out to see what it was that was done. And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the Legion,...
Matthew 8:34 And G2532 behold G2400 (G5628) whole G3956 city G4172 out G1831 (G5627) to G1519
‘And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they pleaded with him that he would depart from their borders.' And the consequence was that ‘all the city' (both Jews and Gent...
THE TWO DEMONIACS OF DECAPOLIS (8:28-34). Having experienced their amazing deliverance the disciples were no doubt pleased to reach a safe haven. Little did they realise that they were going to see ev...
Matthew 8:34. THE WHOLE CITY, the great mass of the inhabitants from city and country, as it appears from the other accounts. THEY BESOUGHT HIM THAT HE WOULD DEPART FROM THEIR BORDERS. The people wer...
CHRONOLOGY. Matthew inserts this group of events here; Mark and Luke at a later point. We accept the chronology of Mark, who explicitly says that Jesus crossed the sea on the evening of the day the pa...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
THAT HE WOULD DEPART (οπως μεταβη). The whole city was excited over the destruction of the hogs and begged Jesus to leave, forgetful of the healing of the demoniacs in their concern over the loss o...
Matthew 8:28 I. Consider the casting out of the devils. (1) The Gospel narratives are distinctly pledged to the historic truth of these occurrences. Either they are true or the Gospels are false. (2)...
Matthew's Gospel is the Gospel of the Kingdom, and of the King. Here you see the King amid the storms of nature. Matthew 8:23. _And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, b...
Matthew 8:16. _When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits, with his word, and healed all that were sick:_ It was the evening after...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals a leper, the centurion's servant and Peter's wife's mother. Professed disciples tested. Stilling of the waves. Casting-out demons at Gadara. CHARACTERS: Jesus, leper, centurion...
Matthew 8:2. _Behold, there came a leper and worshipped him._ After having preached his sermon, and discovered his doctrine, says Jerome, an opportunity presented itself of displaying miracles, thereb...
THEY BEGGED HIM TO LEAVE. Perhaps from fear of his power; or from the calamity of their economic loss. It is a lesson that they firmly rejected him. Mark tells us that the man became a preacher of Chr...
_Besought Him that He would depart._ God coming near to us. I. The way in which God formerly presented himself to men. II. The way in which he does so now. III. The way in which men decline His pr...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:30 The HERD OF PIGS (about 2,000; Mark 5:13) would have been raised for food in this Gentile region on the east shore of the Sea of Galilee.
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:1 The Authoritative Power of the Messiah: Kingdom Power Demonstrated. Jesus has shown himself to be the Messiah through his teaching (chs. Matthew 5:1
JESUS SENDS THE DEMONS INTO A HERD OF PIGS MATTHEW 8:28-34; MARK 5:1-20; LUKE 8:26-39; MATTHEW 8:28 And when he was come to the other side
CHAPTER 8 Ver. 2. _And, behold, a leper,_ &c. This same miracle is related by S. Mark (Mar 1:40), and by Luke (Luke 5:12). From a comparison of these it would seem to follow that the miracle was not p...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 8:28. GERGESENES.—The readings vary between Gerasenes, Gadarenes, and Gergesenes (_Carr_). Modern research claims to have ascertained the exact locality of the transaction. Th...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 8:1 MESSIAH'S WORK AS COMPLEMENTARY TO HIS TEACHING. We return in this section to matter which resembles that of Mark and Luke, and undoubtedly belongs to the Framework (_vide _I...
Let's turn to Matthew's gospel chapter eight. The fifth chapter of Matthew begins "And seeing the multitude, he went into a mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: And he open...
1 Kings 17:18; 1 Kings 18:17; 1 Samuel 16:4; Acts 16:39; Deuteron
DISCIPLESHIP IN TRAINING Matthew 8:18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Let us consider the insincerity of the multitude. The last study closed with the crowds pressing upon Christ that they might be dispossess...
(CF. MARK 5:1-20; LUKE 8:26-39)— Where were the demoniacs healed? PROBLEM: The first three Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) each give an account of Jesus healing demoniacs. Matthew states that the pl...