Luke 9:2

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.)

English Translation

He sent them forth to preach the Kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Download a study sheet

One document with this verse’s original text, its word-by-word gloss line, the meaning frame, cross-references with their text, attributed commentary, and full source and license credits — printable, and it pastes into notes with its structure intact.

This verse Autodidact and up

Study sheet (.html) Plain text (.txt)

A passage Seminary Student

Up to 50 verses in one chapter. A passage sheet keeps up to 6 commentary sources and 12 cross-references per verse, in the order this page ranks them, and says so on the sheet whenever that leaves anything out. Ask for a single verse and you get the Autodidact verse sheet above.

Everything on this page stays free to read, with no account — the sheet is a download of what is already on screen, not access to it.

Want to remove ads? Support Godless Engineer

Word by word

More ways to search: Search by grammar → Find every occurrence → Compare this word →

Practice this passage: Drill this verse → Learn its vocabulary →

ἰᾶσθαι

iáomai

G2390

“to heal”

Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Infinitive

Appears 25× in the Greek New Testament
First appears at Matthew 8:8

Full Thayer's Definition

Origin: middle voice of apparently a primary verb

TDNT: 06:14,3

1. to cure, heal 2. to make whole a. to free from errors and sins, to bring about (one's) salvation

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

10: words
8: distinct lemmas
Gospels: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is ἰᾶσθαι to heal G2390 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Greek New Testament.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

ἰᾶσθαι to heal G2390 occurs in 25 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

Repetition

Words recur within this verse:

καὶ and G2532 ×2
τὴν the G3588 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Luke 9:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Matthew 10:7–8 As you go, preach, saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'
Luke 10:9 Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, 'The Kingdom of God has come near to you.'
Matthew 3:2 "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!"
Matthew 13:19 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
Matthew 24:14 This Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Mark 6:12 They went out and preached that people should repent.
Luke 9:11 But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the Kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed healing.
Mark 16:15 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to the whole creation.

Luke 10:11 'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.'
Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
Mark 1:14–15 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God,
Luke 10:1 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.
Hebrews 2:3–4 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation-- which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Commentary

Notes on Luke 9:2 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Expositor's Greek Testament

ed. W. Robertson Nicoll

Luk 9:2 . This might have been viewed as an incidental mention of preaching as another subordinate function, but for the reference to healing ( ἰᾶσθαι ), which suggests that this verse is another way of stating the objects of the mission, perhaps taken from another source.

The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 2. To preach the kingdom of God] For an explication of this phrase, See Clarke on Mt 3:1.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

2. And he sent them] Two and two for their mutual comfort. Mar_6:7.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God,.... The Gospel, which gives an account of the kingdom of the Messiah; of his kingly office and power; of his church, which is his kingdom, and of the government of it, by the ministration of the word, and the administration of ordinances; of the kingdom of grace in the hearts of Christ's subjects, and the nature of it; and of the kingdom of glory, and what is the saints' meetness for it, and right unto it:

and to heal the sick; of every disease of body, and thereby confirm their mission and commission from Christ, to preach the Gospel; and recommend it to men.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

Ver. 2. See Mat 10:1; Mar 3:13; Mar 6:7.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And to heal the sick. St. Mark, (Mar_6:13) in his brief notice of this mission of the twelve, mentions the special instrument of their power over sickness the twelve anointed the sick with oil, and healed them. It is probable that the early Christian custom alluded to by St. James, (Jam_5:14) of anointing the sick with oil, arose from our Lord"s direction to his apostles on the occasion of this mission. The practice was continued, or possibly was revived, long after the original power connected with it had ceased to exist. It still survives in the Roman Catholic Church in the sacrament of extreme unction, which, singularly enough, is administered when all hope of the patient"s recovery from the sickness is over. Anointing the sick with oil was a favourite practice among the ancient Jews. (see Isa_1:6 and Luk_10:34) It was to be used by the twelve as an ordinary medicine, possessing, however, in their hands an extraordinary effect, and was to be, during this mission, the visible medium through which the Divine influence and power to heal took effect. We never read of Jesus in his miracles using oil; his usual practice seems to have been simply to have used words. At times he touched the sufferer; on one occasion only we read how he mixed some clay with which he anointed the sightless eyes.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges

2. ἀπέστειλεν αὐτούς. Two and two for their mutual comfort. Mar 6:7.

ἰᾶσθαι τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς. ‘To heal the sick.’ There seems to be no essential difference intended between ἰᾶσθαι and θεραπεύειν ‘to tend,’ which is the reading of some MSS., unless it points to the curious fact mentioned by St Mark that they anointed the sick with oil (Luk 6:13; comp. Jas 5:14).

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

International Critical Commentary

2. After ἰᾶσθαι. C etc. ins. τοὺς ἀσθενοῦντας from Mt.; A D L Z ins. τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς: om. B, Syr-Cur. Syr-Sin.

2. κηρύσσειν τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ ἰᾶσθαι. These two verbs sum up the ministration to men’s souls and bodies. See on 5:17. Mt. adds that they were to raise the dead (10:8). Mk. tells us that they were sent out δύο, δύο. For ἀποστέλλω see on 4:18, p. 121.

International Critical Commentary — older volumes (1896–1929), various authors — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Luke, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is iáomai (“to heal”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word iáomai carries the sense “to heal.” How does it shape the verse?
Matthew 8:8 shares the word «to heal» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“and” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how Expositor's Greek Testament and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“and” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Greek lemmas span 10 words in this verse.