17And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and throughout all the region round about.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
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 lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
And king Herod heard of him;(for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)We have here the story of Christ’s raising to life a widow’s son at Nain, that was dead and in the carrying out to be buried, which Matthew and Mark had made no mention of; only, in the general, Matthew had recorded it, in Christ’s answer to the disciples of John, that the dead were raised up, Matt. 11:5. Observe, I. Where, and when, this miracle was wrought. It was the next day after he had cured…
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