25And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.
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And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea, …
And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-25)See here, I. What an industrious preacher Christ was; He went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom . Observe, 1. What Christ preached— the gospel of the kingdom. The kingdom of heaven , that is, of grace and glory, is emphatically the kingdom, the kingdom that was now to come; that kingdom which shall survive, as it doth surpass, all the kingdoms…
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