he charged them i. e. the friends of the afflicted man, who had accompanied or followed him into the presence of his Healer.

so much the more Observe the accumulation of comparatives, "The moreHe charged them, so much the more a great dealthey published it, and were beyond measureastonished." The original word for "beyond measure" occurs nowhere else in the New Testament.

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