Luke 8:26

Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth. For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 4:35; Mark 5:1....

Luke 8:26._There met him a certain man out of the city _It is uncertain whether Luke means that he was a citizen of Gadara, or that he came out of it to meet Christ. For, when he was ordered to go home and proclaim among his friends the grace of God, Mark says, that he did this in Decapolis, which was a neighboring country stretching towards Galilee; and hence it is conjectured that he was not a native of Gadara. Again, Matthew and Mark expressly state that he did not go _out of the city, _but _from the tombs, _and Luke himself, throughout the whole passage, gives us to understand that the man lived in solitary places. These words, therefore, _there met him a certain man out of the city, _I understand to mean, that, before Christ came near the city, the demoniac met him in that direction. As to the opinion that the man dwelt among the graves, either because devils

22-40 Those that put to sea in a calm, even at Christ's word, must yet prepare for a storm, and for great peril in that storm. There is no relief for souls under a sense of guilt, and fear of wrath, but to go to Christ, and call him Master, and say, I am undone, if thou dost not help me. When our dangers are over, it becomes us to take to ourselves the shame of our own fears, and to give Christ the glory of our deliverance. We may learn much out of this history concerning the world of infernal, malignant spirits, which though not working now exactly in the same way as then, yet all must at all times carefully guard against. And these malignant spirits are very numerous. They have enmity to man and all his comforts. Those under Christ's government are sweetly led with the bands of love; those under the devil's government are furiously driven. Oh what a comfort it is to the believer, that...

Verse 26. _THE COUNTRY OF THE GEDARENES_] Or, according to several MSS., _Gerasenes_ or _Gergasenes_. Matthew 8:28, Matthew 8:28, and Mark 5:1, Mark 5:1....

See this passage explained in the Matthew 8:23 notes, and Mark 5:1 notes....

EXPOSITION LUKE 8:1 _St. Luke_'_s brief notice of the women who formed part of the company of Jesus._ LUKE 8:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTERWARD. St. Luke here notices an alteration in the Master's way of life. From this time forward Jesus ceased to make Capernaum "his city," his usual residence; he now journeys with his little band of followers from place to place. From this time there was also a distinct change in the tone of his teaching. The Greek word rendered "afterward" is the same as that translated "in order" in Luke 1:3. SHOWING THE GLAD TIDINGS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. The public work of Jesus may be well arranged under three hea

AND THEY ARRIVED AT THE COUNTRY OF THE GADARENES,.... In Matthew 8:28 it is called the country of the Gergesenes, Matthew 8:28 as it is here, in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions; and "of the Gerasenes", in the Vulgate Latin; but the Syriac and Persic versions read, "of the Gadarenes", as in Mark 5:1. Mark 5:1. WHICH IS OVER AGAINST GALILEE: from whence the ship launched, and Christ and his disciples came....

Luke 8:26. _And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee. And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs._ To what a frightful state of wretchedness this poor creature was reduced by Satanic power! Yet he is only a picture of the state of mind into which many are brought through sin. They seem as if they could not live with their fellowmen; they have grown so mad through sin, so utterly beyond restraint, that they can scarcely be endured in ordinary society. Yet, as Christ healed this man, so he is equal to the cure of the worst case of spiritual and moral disease that may be brought before him. Luke 8:28. When he saw Jesus, he cried o

LUKE 8:26 Gerashnw/n {C} Of the several variant readings, a majority of the Committee preferred Gerashnw/n on the basis of (_a_) superior external attestation (early representatives of both the Alexandrian and Western types of text), and (_b_) the probability that Gadarhnw/n is a scribal assimilation to the prevailing text of Matthew ( Matthew 8:28), and that Gergeshnw/n is a correction, perhaps proposed originally by Origen (see the comments on Mt 8.28)....

CHAPTER 8 __ 1. The Ministering Company (Luke 8:1 .) 2. The Parable of the Sower. (Luke 8:4 .) 3. The Parable of the Lighted Candle. (Luke 8:16) 4. The Declaration of a New Relationship. (Luke 8:19 .) 5. The Storm on the Lake. (Luke 8:22) 6. In the Country of the Gadarenes; the Maniac Healed. (Luke 8:26) 7. His Rejection by the Gadarenes. (Luke 8:37 .) 8. The Wo