Matthew 19:2

Mat 19:2. Ἐκεῖ, there) In many places a number of cures were performed at once by our Lord.

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Mat 19:2 . ἠκολούθησαν : the crowds follow as if there had been no interruption, in Mt.; in Mk., who knows of a time of hiding (Mat 9:30 ), they reassemble (Mat 10:1 ). ἐθεράπευσεν α . ἐκεῖ : a healing ministry commences in the south; in Mk. a teaching ministry (Mat 10:1 ).

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And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there--Mark says further (Mar 10:1), that "as He was wont, He taught them there." What we now have on the subject of divorce is some of that teaching.

Divorce (Mat 19:3-12).

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Verse 2. Great multitudes followed him] Some to be instructed - some to be healed - some through curiosity - and some to ensnare him.

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And great multitudes followed him,.... The Persic version adds, "of the sick and diseased"; but all that followed him were not such, though some were: these came not only from Galilee, but from the adjacent parts, from the country beyond Jordan, and the coasts of Judea, where he had been formerly; and who resort to him again, as Mark observes; and whom, according to his usual manner, he taught and instructed in the knowledge of divine things, and confirmed his doctrines by miracles:

and he healed them there; in the above mentioned places, even as many of them as were sick and diseased.

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2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.

Ver. 2. And great multitudes followed him] Though he were then to die. For all that follows from this Mat 19:1-30; Mat 20:1-34; Mat 21:1-46; Mat 22:1-46; Mat 23:1-39; Mat 24:1-51, seems to be a relation, of the acts of the last three months of his life. Follow God, was a moral precept of the heathen sages, τοις θεοις επου, who therein placed the safety and happiness of a man. Magnus est animas qui se Deo tradidit, Great is the spirit that surrenders himself to God, saith Seneca. He is a brave man that follows God through thick and thin, through whatsoever hardship.

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2. Great multitudes followed him — As he itinerated in Perea.

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Great multitudes followed him. He was favourably received by the unprejudiced Peraeans. Healed them. Those of the multitude who had need of healing. (Luk_9:11) There. In the "beyond Jordan" region. St. Mark observes that he taught them. Thus, "at one time teaching, at another working miracles, he varied his means of salvation, that from the miracles faith might be given him as a Teacher; and by his teaching he might urge to edification the miracles which he wrought" (St. Chrysostom, ap. I Williams).

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Multitudes followed him, and he healed them there - That is, wheresoever they followed him.

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2.] This agrees with what is said Joh 10:41, Joh 10:42. For ἐθεράπ., St. Mark has ἐδίδασκεν.

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(M) 2. And there followed Him many multitudes; and He healed them there.] Mk. has: “And there journey with Him (?) again multitudes; and as He was wont, He was teaching them.”—ἠκολούθησαν] Mt., as often, avoids the hist. pres. συνπορεύονται. He omits Mk’s Semitic ἀναστάς as in 15:21 = Mar 7:24 and 26:60 = Mar 14:57, and omits also, as often, Mk.’s πάλιν.—ἐθεράπευσεν] The editor substitutes healing for teaching in 14:14 = Mar 6:34, and in 21:14 = Mar 11:18.—ὄχλοι πολλοί.] For the addition of πολλοί, cf. 4:25, 8:1, 18, 13:2, 15:30.

In Mk. most MSS. have συνπορεύονται πάλιν ὄχλοι. This is the only occurrence in Mk. of the plural ὄχλοι. But D S1 a b c ff 1 i k q have the singular. συνπορεύεσθαι occurs only here in Mk. D has συνέρχεται, cf. Mar 3:20. συνπορεύεσθαι πρός is awkward, and the reading of D al may be original.

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