28And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
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And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.
But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
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 he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-28)As soon as Christ began to preach, he began to work miracles for the confirmation of his doctrine; and they were such as intimated the design and tendency of his doctrine, which were to conquer Satan, and cure sick souls. In these verses, we have, I. Christ’s casting the devil out of a man that was possessed, in the synagogue at Capernaum. This passage was not related in Matthew, but is afterward…
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