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Luke 4:40-44

Healing the Sick at Evening

40. when the sun was setting Sunset ended the Sabbath, and thus enabled Jews, without infringing on the many minute - abhoth" and - toldoth" i. e. primary and subordinate rules of sabbatic strictness to carry their sick on beds and pallets. (John 5:11-12; see Life of Christ, i. 433.) This twilight scene of Jesus moving about with word and touch of healing among the sick and suffering, the raving and tortured crowd (Matthew 4:24), is one of the most striking in the Gospels, and St Matthew quotes it as a fulfilment of Isaiah 53:4.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE BATTLE WITH TEMPTATION (Luke 4:1-13)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    HEALING THE SICK AT EVENING...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Catena Aurea Commentary

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    The evangelist mentions this circumstance, because these distressed people did not dare to bring their sick before that time, either through fear of the Pharisees, or of violating the sabbath. (Origen...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    2. _Residence at Capernaum: Luke 4:31-44_. Five sections: 1 _st._ A general survey (Luke 4:31-32); 2 _d._ The healing of a demoniac (Luke 4:33-37); 3 _d._ That of Peter's mother-in-law ...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    4 _th. Luke 4:40-41_. Here we have one of those periods when the miraculous power of Jesus was most abundantly displayed. We shall meet again with some of these culminating points in the course of His...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (38) And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house, and Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. (39) And he stood over her, and rebuked t...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW WHEN THE SUN WAS SETTING,.... And so the sabbath was over; Matthew 8:16. ALL THEY THAT HAD ANY SICK, WITH DIVERS DISEASES, BROUGHT THEM UNTO HIM; that is, as many of the inhabitants of Capernaum...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He entered into Simon's house_ See notes on Matthew 8:14; and Mark 1:29. _When the sun was setting_ And consequently the sabbath ended, which they considered as continuing from sunset to sunset; _all...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    The devil cast out-Peter's wife's mother and others healed. Mark 1:21-39...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Cures on the Sabbath evening:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 4:40 G1161 sun G2246 setting G1416 (G5723) all G3956 those G3745 had G2192 (G5707) sick...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    WHEN THE SUN WAS SETTING (δυνοντος του ηλιου). Genitive absolute and present participle (δυνω, late form of δυω) picturing the sunset scene. Even Mark 1:32 has here the aorist indicative εδυσεν (pun...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    We are going to read some verses in the fourth and fifth Chapter s of Luke's Gospel, hospital Chapter s, I may call them, for they record many marvellous cures which were wrought by the great Physicia...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth. Casting of demons out of man at Capernaum. Healing of Peter's wife's mother and others. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Satan, Josep...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Luke 4:2. _Being tempted forty days he afterward hungered._ During this space he lived like Moses on the mount, conversing with the Father in all the glories of his kingdom. His humanity was renovated...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick_ NOW WHEN THE SUN WAS SETTING When the sun set another sun arose. The eventide of nature brought the morning of restoration. Nature perishes...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 4:40 THE SUN WAS SETTING. See note on Mark 1:32–34. EVERY ONE OF THEM. Though it was late, Jesus did not perform a “group healing” but paid individual attention to each pe

  • The Gospels Compared

    JESUS HEALS PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW AND MANY OTHERS MATTHEW 8:14-17; MARK 1:29-34; LUKE 4:38-41; MATTHEW 8:14 And when Jesus was come int

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 4 VER. 1. _And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan_, having been there baptized by John a little time before, and having _visibly_ received the Holy Spirit, whose fulness...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LUKE 4:1 THE TEMPTATION. The consecration of our Lord in his baptism was immediately followed by what is known as his temptation. It is, perhaps, the most mysterious and least understood...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit returned from Jordan (Luke 4:1), Now He was at Jordan where He was baptized by John, and He returned from Jordan. and was led by the Spirit into the wildernes...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 19:12; Acts 5:15; Luke 7:21; Mark 1:32; Mark 3:10;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    When the sun was setting. The people brought their sick at that hour, not only because of the coolness, but because it was the end of the Sabbath, and carrying a sick person was regarded as work. See...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    A BUSY DAY IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST Luke 4:37 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Healed to help. When Simon's wife's mother was healed of the fever by the touch of the Divine Lord, we read, "Immediately she arose a...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    When the sun was set — And consequently the Sabbath ended, which they reckoned from sunset to sunset. Matthew 8:16; Mark 1:32....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    The evangelist here declares sundry other cures wrought by our Saviour: he healed the sick, and dispossessed the devils. In our Saviour's time we read of many possessed with devils, and of but few eit...

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