Luke 8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:24

Luke 8:24. Master, Master, we perish!— How concise, how abrupt, and how ardent is this exclamation! therefore how strongly significant of imminent danger,and of the utmost distress! they have not time to be explicit; a moment's delay may be fatal. What they utter is conciseness itself, and all rapidity.—This is nature; this is the general language of the heart. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:25

Luke 8:25. Where is your faith?— The disciples, having seen their Master perform many miracles, had abundant reason to rely on his power and goodness, even in a greater danger than this; for though their vessel had sunk, they could not have imagined that God would have suffered him to be lost; and might have been confident, that he who had given sight to the blind, and life to the dead, could have saved them all, by making them walk firmly on the water, as he enabled one of them to do... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:26-27

Luke 8:26-27. And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes,— Though we have given, in the notes on St. Matthew, an explanation of the principal circumstances of this remarkable miracle; yet, as it contains so full and satisfactory an account of real possession, and demoniacal agency, I cannot refuse my reader the extracts following from Dr. Ward's Dissertation on the subject, as they not only concur with, but strongly confirm the opinions which I have advanced in the notes onSt. Matthew.... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:28

Luke 8:28. What have I to do with thee, &c.?— This way of speaking has been used bywriters in all the ancient languages, and is applied both to personsand things. With respect to persons, it is used, sometimes by superiors towards inferiors; at other times, by one equal to another; and again, at other times, by inferiors towards their superiors; and the sense must vary according to the different circumstances of the persons whom it respects. For when an inferior thus addresses his superior,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:30

Luke 8:30. What is thy name, &c.?— Our Saviour probably asked the name of the evil spirit, to shew the extreme misery of the demoniac who was possessed by him. There is no need of concluding from the answer, that the number of these evil spirits was exactly the same with that of a Roman legion, which at this period consisted of six thousand and upwards. It was a phrase often made use of to express a great number; and it is observable that the evangelist's words lead us to this very sense:... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:31

Luke 8:31. And they brought him, &c.— It seems from Daniel 10:13; Dan 10:20 that different evil genii presided over distinct legions, by the directionsof Satan their prince. These, who perhaps were spirits of distinguished abilities, might be appointed to reside hereabouts, to oppose as much as possible the beneficial designs of Christ; and having made their observations on the character and circumstances of the inhabitants, they might judge themselves capable of doing more mischief here... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:32

Luke 8:32. And he suffered them— The town of Gadara, near which this miracle was wrought, was a Grecian city: see Matthew 8:28.; and as there was a mixture of Jews and Gentiles in those towns which bordered upon Judea, many of the Jews who lived there complied in some things with the Gentile customs, and among others, very probably in eating swine's flesh; and if this was the case, part of these swine might belong to them, which, by their number, two thousand, seem to have been a common or... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:37

Luke 8:37. The whole multitude—besought him, &c.— The inhabitants of the neighbouring town seem to have known no more of Christ than the demoniac; for when those who fed the swine fled thither, and told them what had happened, they immediatelycame to the place, and seeing the great alteration made in the man, this, together with the loss of their swine, so terrified them, that they besought Christ to depart out of their coasts. Mark 5:15-17. They would surely not have done this, had they... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:39

Luke 8:39. Shew how great things God hath done unto thee.— The divinity of our Saviour is strongly and emphatically expressed in this verse; where what Jesus had done, is placed in direct and immediate apposition with what God had done. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:43

Luke 8:43. An issue of blood— A bloody flux. read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:24

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:25

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:26-27

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:28

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:30

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:31

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:32

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:37

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:39

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Luke 8:43

Verse of the Day

Daily Devotional

Group of Brands