Syria; a country north and east of Palestine.
Possessed with devils; devils at that time were permitted to have special influence over some men; and this gave Jesus Christ opportunity to show his controlling power over them, and his mercy in expelling them.
Verse Matthew 4:24. _SICK PEOPLE_] Τους, κακως εχοντας, _those who felt_ _ill _- were afflicted with any species of malady. _AND TORMENTS_] βασανοις, from βασανιζω, to _examine by_ _torture_, such as...
AND HIS FAME WENT THROUGHOUT ALL SYRIA - It is not easy to fix the exact bounds of Syria in the time of our Saviour. It was, perhaps, the general name for the country lying between the Euphrates on th...
4. THE TESTING OF THE KING AND HIS TESTIMONY. _ 1. The Testing by the Devil. (Matthew 4:1 .) 2. His Testimony and His Disciples. (Matthew 4:12 .) 3. The Powers of the Kingdom. (Matthew 4:23 .)_ CHAP...
SUMMARY OF WORK IN GALILEE (_cf._ Mark 1:39; Luke 4:44). Mt. here departs from Mk.'s order; he is about to give an account of the teachings of Jesus (Matthew 4:5) before an account of His healings ...
HIS FAME WENT THROUGHOUT ALL SYRIA. Thus every miracle, besides relieving its immediate subject, and disposing him and all who saw it to the reception of the truth, helped to make our Lord more gener...
THE TESTING TIME (Matthew 4:1-11) Step by step Matthew unfolds the story of Jesus. He begins by showing us how Jesus was born into this world. He goes on to show us, at least by implication, that Jes...
Jesus made a circular tour of Galilee, teaching in the Synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom, and healing all kinds of diseases and ailments among the people: and the report of his acti...
FAME. hearing. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Adjunct), App-6, for what was heard. THROUGHOUT. unto. Greek. _eis._ DISEASES. Greek. _nosos,_ translated sickness in Matthew 4:23. DEVILS....
Jesus preaches the Gospel and cures Diseases in Galilee Special instances of cure are recorded in Mark 1:13 and foll.; Luke 4:31 and foll....
_throughout all Syria_ The fame passes to the north and east, rather than to the south. Galilee is connected by trade and affinity with Damascus rather than with Jerusalem. _torments_ The original Gr...
ΕἸΣ ὍΛΗΝ ΤῊΝ ΣΥΡΊΑΝ. The fame passes to the north and east, rather than to the south. Galilee is connected by trade and affinity with Damascus rather than with Jerusalem. ΒΑΣΆΝΟΙΣ … ΣΥΝΕΧΟΜΈΝΟΥΣ. βάσα...
23–25. JESUS PREACHES THE GOSPEL AND CURES DISEASES IN GALILEE Special instances of cure are recorded in Mark 1:13 and foll.; Luke 5:31 and foll....
Ver 23. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 24. And...
_JESUS WAS A HEALING SAVIOR MATTHEW 4:23-25:_ Christ healed "all kinds of sickness" and "all kinds of diseases." He did not heal for money or fame but as proof that He is the Son of God. "And many oth...
ΆΠΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΑΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G565) уходить, выходить, распространяться. ΑΚΟΉ (G189) слух, молва, ΠΡΟΣΉΝΕΓΚΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΦΈΡΩ (G4374) приносить, ΈΧΟΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_...
TORMENTS, &C.— _Pains; demoniacs, lunatics, and paralytics._...
SECTION 10. JESUS PREACHES AND HEALS IN GALILEE (Parallels: Mark 1:35-39; Luke 4:42-44) TEXT: 4:23-25 23. And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel...
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were l...
18-19 Compare Mar_1:16-18; Luk_5:1-11; Joh_1:40-42. 21-22 Compare Mar_1:19-20; Luk_5:10-11. 23 See Mar_1:21-39. 25 Compare Mar_3:7-8. 1-2 Compare Luk_6:20:23. 1 The “Sermon on the Mount” was proba...
4:24 pains, (d-25) 'Torments,' or 'tortures.'...
THE TEMPTATION 1-11. The temptation (Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1). The narrative, which can only have come from our Lord's own lips, describes an actual historical fact, the great temptation which He underwen...
JOURNEYS OF JESUS THROUGH GALILEE: PREACHING AND HEALING THE SICK. St. Matthew interrupts his narrative of what took place at Capernaum to give a general sketch of the early period of the Galilean min...
ALL SYRIA] i.e. the Roman province of Syria. POSSESSED WITH DEVILS] See special note below. LUNATICK] (lit. 'moonstruck') RV 'epileptic.' Such sufferers were supposed to be influenced by changes of th...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 4 THE DEVIL TESTS JESUS 4:1-11 V1 The *Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert. The devil tested Jesus while he was there. V2 For 40 d...
THROUGHOUT ALL SYRIA. — The word is probably used popularly, rather than with the definite significance of the Roman province with which St. Luke uses it in Luke 2:2. Our Lord’s ministry, with the one...
CHAPTER 6 Beginning of His Galilean Ministry - Matthew 4:12. DID our Lord's ministry begin in Galilee? If so, why did He not Himself set the example of "beginning at Jerusalem?" As a matter of fact w...
_Beginnings of the Galilean ministry_ (Mark 1:14-15; Luke 4:14-15). In a few rapid strokes the evangelist describes the opening of the Messianic work of Jesus in Galilee. He has in view the great Serm...
_Summary account of the Galilean ministry_. A colourless general statement serving as a mere prelude to Chapter s 5 9. It points to a ministry in Galilee, varied, extensive, and far-famed, conceived b...
OPENING WORKS OF MERCY AND POWER Matthew 4:18-25 We must read the first chapter of John into the opening paragraph. Already the Lord had met with these first disciples in the Jordan valley; but they...
"Then." After the heavens opened, hell is opened. The King must not only be in perfect harmony with the order and beauty of the heavens, He must face all the disorder and ugliness of the abyss. Goodne...
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and (n) torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which wer...
Many came to Christ to beg to be cured of their corporal infirmities; nor do we read o fa single one here, who came to be delivered from spiritual sickness. Our blessed Savior nevertheless, bearing wi...
And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan. What a lovely picture is here drawn of the SON of GOD!...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
Having thus, in grace, taken up His position as man on earth, He commences His earthly career, being led of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. The righteous and holy man, the S...
AND HIS FAME WENT THROUGHOUT ALL SYRIA,.... For his ministry and miracles, especially the latter; wherefore THEY BROUGHT TO HIM, that is, out of Syria, the sick. Syria was in some respects reckoned a...
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lu...
_His fame went through all Syria_ Of which the country of the Jews and Samaritans was but a small part. Pliny tells us, that Syria contained several provinces, Comagene to the north, Phœnicia to the w...
The result was natural: AND HIS FAME WENT THROUGHOUT ALL SYRIA. AND THEY BROUGHT UNTO HIM ALL SICK PEOPLE THAT WERE TAKEN WITH DIVERS DISEASES AND TORMENTS, AND THOSE WHICH WERE POSSESSED WITH DEVILS,...
There could be no doubt therefore that He would fulfil this virtual pledge to bear their sins on Calvary. Notice too that the Father approves Him in this unqualified way before His being tested by Sat...
23-25 Wherever Christ went, he confirmed his Divine mission by miracles, which were emblems of the healing power of his doctrine, and the influences of the Spirit which accompanied it. We do not now...
SYRIA is said to be bounded on the north by Cilicia, by Egypt on the south, on the west with the sea, and on the east with Euphrates, and to comprehend within it all Judea, Bethany, Galilee, Decapolis...
Excerpt on Edessa from the History of the Church of the country, to Jesus, the good Saviour, who has appeared in the country of Jerusalem: Peace. I have heard about Thee,[20]...
Matthew 4:24 Then G2532 His G846 fame G189 went G565 (G5627) throughout G1519 all G3650 Syria G4947 and...
‘And the report about him went forth into all Syria, and they brought to him all who were sick, gripped with many various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied, and...
THE LIGHT BEGINS TO SHINE THROUGHOUT ALL GALILEE, AND EVEN BEYOND (4:23-25). From now on a great work of the Spirit commences throughout all Galilee, as Jesus goes about teaching in their synagogues,...
Matthew 4:24. THE REPORT. ‘Fame' has changed its meaning. SYRIA, the name of the largest Roman province north and east of Palestine, sometimes including it. Probably used here in its widest extent....
CONTENTS AND CONNECTION. The appearance of Jesus as the light of the world amidst the darkness of the land of Galilee, in accordance with prophecy (Matthew 4:12-16). The record begins at the close of...
THE REPORT OF HIM WENT FORTH INTO ALL SYRIA (απηλθεν η ακοη αυτου εις ολην την Σψριαν). Rumour (ακοη) carries things almost like the wireless or radio. The Gentiles all over Syria to the north heard...
POSSESSED (Greek, "daimonizomai", "demonized"; (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 7:22). _...
4:12. _Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;_ Notice that there were at that time only two great ministers of God, John the Baptist, he must go to prison...
CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus' public ministry begun. Call of first disciples. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Satan, John the Baptist, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is t...
Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit,_ υπο του πνευματος, the Holy Spirit, as indicated by the Greek article, and declared in the verses preseding. _Led into the wilderness,_ where he was...
THE NEWS. What he was doing attracted attention. Syria was the Roman province north and east of Palestine, and may have included the latter at this time. Antioch and Damascus were in this province [_s...
_Healing all manner of sick._ MORAL HEALING I. Christ is able to cure all sorts of sins. Lover of lust, dropsy of drunkenness, stone in the heart, etc. II. Christ healed incurable sinners-people wh...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:12 These verses mark the beginning of Jesus’ Galilean ministry. It is traditionally thought that Jesus’ ministry lasted three years: a year of obscurity, a year of popularity...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:24 SYRIA. A Gentile region north of Galilee. ⇐ ⇔...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:1 Jesus the Messiah Begins to Advance the Messianic Kingdom. Jesus triumphs over the devil in the wilderness (vv. Matthew 4:1), proclaims the kingdom
JESUS PREACHES THROUGHOUT GALILEE MATTHEW 4:23-25; MARK 1:35-39; LUKE 4:42-44; MATTHEW 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching
CHAPTER 4 _By the devil_. Syriac, _by the accuser_, Gr. _διάβολος_, _accuser_, _calumniator_. For Satan is he who accuses men before God perpetually, that he may gain them for himself and Gehenna. _T...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 4:23. SYNAGOGUES.—Places of religious assembly and worship. After the Jews returned from the exile in Babylon, a new hunger for the law of God and the worship of God seems to...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 4:1 THE TEMPTATION. The Father's acceptance of the Lord's consecration of himself for the work of the kingdom does not exclude temptation, but rather necessitates it. Psychologica...
Chapter Four Then was Jesus led of the Spirit into the wilderness (Matthew 4:1) Immediately, He is now being led by the Spirit, walking after the Spirit. The New Testament has so much to say to us co...
1 Chronicles 14:17; 1 Kings 10:1; 1 Kings 4:31; 2 Samuel 8:6; Acts
THE FIRST DISCIPLES Matthew 4:13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory we wish to speak on the wonderful privileges which belong to saints, called into comradeship with God. Where is the man or the wo...
Through all Syria — The whole province, of which the Jewish country was only a small part. And demoniacs — Men possessed with devils: and lunatics, and paralytics — Men ill of the palsy, whose cases w...
Observe here, 1. That although our Savior's doctrine needed no confirmation beyond his own authority, yet he was graciously pleased to exert the power of his godhead in working miracles for the establ...