CHAPTER VIII. _Great multitudes follow Christ_, 1. _He heals a leper_, 2-4. _Heals the centurion's servant_, 5-13. _Heals Peter's wife's mother_, 14, 15; _and several other diseased persons_, 16,...
WHEN HE WAS COME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN - That is, immediately on his descending from the mountain. His discourse had attracted great attention, and the fame of it drew together great multitudes, who...
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 HEALING OF A LEPER (Mark 1:40 *, Luke 5:12). Mt. omits the healing of the demoniac (Mark 1:23), and gives this incident perhaps in illustration of Christ's attitude to the Law. Love is greater tha...
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...
When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; and, look you, a leper came to him, and remained kneeling before him. "Lord," he said, "you can cleanse me, if you are willing to...
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A LEPER IS CLEANSED St Mark 1:40-44; where this incident is placed in the course of a Galilæan circuit, and before the return to Capernaum. St Luke 5:12, where the cure is placed ἐν μιᾷ τῶν πόλεων, an...
VER 1. WHEN HE WAS COME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN, GREAT MULTITUDES FOLLOWED HIM. 2. AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A LEPER AND WORSHIPPED HIM, SAYING, "LORD, IF THOU WILT, THOU CANST MAKE ME CLEAN." 3. AND JES...
_SOME MIRACLES OF JESUS MATTHEW 8:1-15:_ In Matthew 8:1-4 the great multitudes followed him. They did not follow Him with their hearts but they walked along with Him. A leper came in faith to the only...
ΚΑΤΑΒΆΝΤΟΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΚΑΤΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G2597) спускаться. Part, используется как _gen. abs._, выражающий одновременность. ΉΚΟΛΟΎΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΛΟΥΘΈΩ (G190) следовать, сопутствовать...
THE IMPACT OF JESUS-' PREACHING TEXT: Matthew 7:28-8 28. And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching: 29. For he taught them as _one_ havi...
When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. The time of this miracle seem too definitely fixed here to admit of our placing it where it stands in Mark and Luke, in whose...
12 Compare Luk_6:31. 12 To do as we would be done by is an ethical standard far above the world's attainment, yet far beneath the monitions of grace. The law and the prophets demand compliance with t...
WHEN HE WAS COME DOWN] Only St. Matthew mentions the historical connexion of this miracle, though both St. Mark and St. Luke agree that it took place during one of the early preaching tours in Galilee...
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...
VIII. (1) We enter here on a series of events, following, in St. Matthew’s arrangement, on the great discourse. They are common to St. Mark and St. Luke, but are not narrated, as the following table...
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...
_The leper_ (Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16). This is the first individual act of healing reported in this Gospel, chap. Matthew 4:23-24 containing only a general notice. It is a very remarkable one. No t...
καταβάντος αὐτοῦ (for the reading _vide_ above). Jesus descended from the hill towards Capernaum (Matthew 8:5), but we must beware of supposing that the immediately following events all happened there...
REWARDS OF FAITH Matthew 8:1-10 The Lord can touch thy heart, leprous with impurity, and make its stain depart, so that, as in the case of Naaman, its foulness shall become like “unto the flesh of a...
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 when he was come down from the mountain. St. Matthew says, that Jesus Christ ascended the mountain, and sat down to teach the people; while St. Luke affirms, that he descended, and stood in a plai...
CHAPTER 28 JESUS HOMELESS Matthew 8:1-22, & Luke 9:57-62. “And it came to pass, they journeying on the way, a certain one said to Him, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou mayest go, Lord; and Jesus...
Though this act of cleansing the Leper is by Matthew recorded as the first of CHRIST'S miracles, yet we have no authority so to conclude, for John records the first miracle to have been at the marriag...
We have here the LORD JESUS confirming his word by miracles. Jesus cleanseth a Leper, healeth the Centurion's servant, the mother-in-law of Peter, with many others; stilleth the waves of the sea, cast...
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...
_LAW AND LIFE_ ‘When He was come down from the mountain great multitudes followed Him.’ Matthew 8:1 The mount from which our Lord descended to work this miracle of healing was the Mount of the Beat...
Matthew 8:1._And when he had come down from the mountain _Matthew now returns to the course of the history. He had formerly said, that Christ _went up into a mountain, _(verse 1) then he threw, as it...
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...
WHEN HE WAS COME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN,.... Into which he went up, and preached the sermon recorded in the "three" preceding Chapter s: GREAT MULTITUDES FOLLOWED HIM: which is mentioned, partly to s...
When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. Ver. 1. _Great multitudes followed him_] Many thousands, as _Bodinius De Claritate Christi_ proveth out of ancient writers. Thi...
_When he was come down from the mountain_ Where he had delivered the divine discourse contained in the preceding Chapter s; _great multitudes followed him_ To the town toward which he went, desirous,...
THE HEALING OF THE LEPER. v. 1. WHEN HE WAS COME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN, GREAT MULTITUDES FOLLOWED HIM. While He was coming down from the mountain, where He had delivered His great sermon, and especi...
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...
1 This verse refers to the close of the foregoing sermon. Those to whom Christ has made himself known, desire to know more of him....
MATTHEW CHAPTER 8 MATTHEW 8:2 Christ cleanseth the leper, MATTHEW 8:5 healeth the centurion's servant, MATTHEW 8:14 Peter's mother-in-law,...
Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate And another Jew stepped up and said: I was crooked, and he straightened me with a word. And another said: I was a leper, and he cured me with a word.[25]...
Matthew 8:1 When G1161 had G846 down G2597 (G5631) from G575 mountain G3735 great G4183 multitudes G3793 followed...
JESUS REVEALS HIMSELF AS THE COMING ONE BY HIS ACTS OF POWER AND PROCLAMATION OF THE GOOD NEWS (8:1-9). In Matthew 11:4 Jesus sends to a doubting John in prison these words, ‘Tell John the things whic...
INTRODUCTORY WORDS (8:1). These words set the scene for what follows, and together with Matthew 9:35 form an inclusio for the passage. In them His ministry is seen to be a public ministry, and His mi...
Matthew 8:1. WHEN HE CAME DOWN. Comp. Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-15. Notwithstanding the apparently definite statement of Matthew as to time and place, the chronological order of Mark and Luke is more co...
ON OUR LORD'S MIRACLES. The Greek word translated miracle means literally ‘power'; the idea of wondering underlies our word miracle. A miracle is therefore some wonderful display of power; the special...
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...
Matthew 8:1 Jesus and Imperfect Faith. I. Notice the leper's appeal to Christ. This appeal, as every other, must have had some manner of faith to rest upon. The leper believed in a healing virtue nig...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper_ You see that particular mention is made of this one special case, and, in any co...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him,_ Great multitudes often count for nothing; it is here or ther...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him._ There was a charm about his preaching, not that he modified his doctrine, or that he cut down his precepts; he s...
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...
THEN A LEPER CAME TO HIM. Leprosy begins as a skin disease, defies efforts to cure it, and is a kind of "living death." Dr. Schaff says: "Near the Jaffa gate of Jerusalem I saw, in 1877, these miserab...
_And, behold, there came a leper._ THE LEPER’S CURE I. The leper’s faith. II. Christ’s treatment or the leper. 1. That this disease is a type of moral corruption. 2. God’s grace alone can effect...
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 8:2. AND BEHOLD, etc.—The time of this miracle seems too definitely fixed here to admit of our placing it where it stands in Mark and Luke, in whose Gospels no such precise n...
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...
Luke 14:25; Luke 5:15; Matthew 12:15; Matthew 15:30; Matthew 19:2;...
THE MIRACLE-WORKING CHRIST Matthew 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. On the mountain top. The mountain tops in the Bible stand forth in bold review. They represent Heavenly experiences, fellowship with God...
Note here, in general, that the Jews paid civil adoration to their kings and to their prophets: thus Saul stooped with his face to the ground to Samuel; Nebuchadnezzer fell on his face before Daniel,...