Luke 8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 8:41

A man named Jairus - See these two miracles - the raising of Jairus's daughter, and the cure of the afflicted woman - considered and explained at large, on Matthew 9:18-26 ; (note), and Mark 5:22-43 (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 8:42

The people thronged him - Συνεπνιγον αυτον - almost suffocated him - so great was the throng about him. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 8:43

Spent all her living upon physicians - See the note on Mark 5:26 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 8:46

I perceive that virtue - Δυναμιν , Divine or miraculous power. This Divine emanation did not proceed always from Christ, as necessarily as odours do from plants, for then all who touched him must have been equally partakers of it. Of the many that touched him, this woman and none else received this Divine virtue; and why? Because she came in faith. Faith alone attracts and receives the energetic influence of God at all times. There would be more miracles, at least of spiritual healing,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 8:54

He put them all out - That is, the pipers and those who made a noise, weeping and lamenting. See Matthew 9:23 ; Mark 5:38 . Pompous funeral ceremonies are ridiculous in themselves, and entirely opposed to the spirit and simplicity of the religion of Christ. Every where they meet with his disapprobation. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 8:55

And he commanded to give her meat - Though she was raised to life by a miracle, she was not to be preserved by a miracle. Nature is God's great instrument, and he delights to work by it; nor will he do any thing by his sovereign power, in the way of miracle, that can be effected by his ordinary providence. Again, God will have us be workers together with him: he provides food for us, but he does not eat for us; we eat for ourselves, and are thus nourished on the bounty that God has provided.... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 8:1

Verse 1 What I have here introduced from Luke belongs, perhaps, to another time; but I saw no necessity for separating what he has placed in immediate connection. First, he says that the twelve apostles preached the kingdom of God along with Christ; from which we infer that, though the ordinary office of teaching had not yet been committed to them, they constantly attended as heralds to procure an audience for their Master; and, therefore, though they held an inferior rank, they are said to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 8:3

Verse 3 Luke 8:3.Joanna, the wife of Chuza It is uncertain whether or not Luke intended his statement to be applied to those women in the same manner as to Mary To me it appears probable that she is placed first in order, as a person in whom Christ had given a signal display of his power; and that the wife of Chuza, and Susanna, matrons of respectability and of spotless reputation, are mentioned afterwards, because they had only been cured of ordinary diseases. Those matrons being wealthy and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 8:19

Verse 19 Luke 8:19.And his mother and his brethren came to him. There is an apparent discrepancy here between Luke and the other two Evangelists; for, according to their arrangement of the narrative, they represent Christ’s mother and cousins as having come, while he was discoursing about the unclean spirit, while he refers to a different occasion, and mentions only the woman’s exclamation, which we have just now explained. But we know that the Evangelists were not very exact as to the order of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 8:26

Verse 26 Luke 8:26.There met him a certain man out of the city It is uncertain whether Luke means that he was a citizen of Gadara, or that he came out of it to meet Christ. For, when he was ordered to go home and proclaim among his friends the grace of God, Mark says, that he did this in Decapolis, which was a neighboring country stretching towards Galilee; and hence it is conjectured that he was not a native of Gadara. Again, Matthew and Mark expressly state that he did not go out of the city,... read more

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