Luke 8:1-3. The Ministering Women.

1. And it came to pass afterward The expression marks a new phase, a new departure, in Christ's mode of action. Hitherto He had made Capernaum His head-quarters; regarded it as "His own city," and not gone to any great distance from it. At this period the exact beginning of which is only vaguely marked He began a wider range of missions.

shewing the glad tidings The Baptist had preached -repentance" as the preparation for the Kingdom: our Lord preached of the Kingdom itself, and this was -glad tidings," because the Kingdom of God is "righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." Romans 14:17.

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