Matthew 8:30-34 NIV

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:1-34

The Leper Cleansed. The Centurion’s Servant Healed. Healing of Peter’s Wife’s Mother and many others. Stilling of the Tempest. Healing of the Gadarene Demoniacs1-4. Cleansing of the leper (Mark 1:40; Luke 5:12). No natural explanation of this miracle is possible. Leprosy has always been, and is still, one of the most intractable diseases. Under the Mosiac Law lepers were regarded as unclean and excluded entirely from human society: see Leviticus 13, 14, and notes. Considered as a parable this... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 8:30

(30) An herd of many swine.—We are surprised at first to find swine kept in a country where their flesh could not be an article of food. But though the Jews did not eat pork, Roman soldiers did, and the swine may have been kept to supply the wants of the legion with which the man was familiar. The pun of Augustus as to Herod’s swine and son (see Note on Matthew 2:16) seems to imply that the king kept them on his estates for some such purpose. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 8:31

(31) So the devils besought him.—As St. Mark gives the words, “that He should not send them out of the country,” or district, in which they were; as in St. Luke’s report, “that He would not command them to go out into the deep,” i.e., the abyss, the “bottomless pit” of Revelation 9:1-2; Revelation 9:11. The words of the man are as those of the demons with whom he identifies himself. He shrinks from the thought of wandering in dry places, “seeking rest, and finding none” (Matthew 12:43), or... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 8:32

(32) He said unto them, Go.—Men have asked sometimes, in scorn, why the word was spoken; why permission was given for a destructive work which seemed alike needless and fruitless. The so-called rationalistic explanation, that the demoniacs drove the swine down the cliff in a last paroxysm of frenzy, is no solution of the difficulty, for, even if that hypothesis were on other grounds tenable, it is clear that our Lord’s words sanctioned what they did. We are at least on the right track in... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 8:34

(34) The whole city—i.e., the population of Gadara or Gerasa (more probably the former), according to the reading which we adopt in Matthew 8:28. St. Mark and St. Luke add, that they found the demoniac “clothed, and in his right mind, sitting at the feet of Jesus,” in the clinging gratitude of faith. The narrative half suggests the thought that the garment which he now wore as the outward sign of a new self-reverence had been supplied by the pity of the disciples.Besought him that he would... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Matthew 8:1-34

The Healing of the Leper Matthew 8:3 These words, spoken to a leper, were the very last words that anyone, save He Who spake them, would have dreamed of saying. Most men, if they had spoken at all, would have bidden him keep his distance; some few might have flung to him a word or two of passing pity; one here and there might have bestowed an alms on him; but not one would even for a moment have thought of saying, 'Be thou clean'. It was left for Jesus to say to the poor wretch at His feet,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Matthew 8:1-34

Chapter 8The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1-34 - Matthew 9:1-35REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing all manner of diseases. Of the teaching and preaching we have had a signal illustration in what is called the Sermon on the Mount; now the other great branch of the work is set before us in a group of miracles, filling up almost the whole of the eighth and ninth chapters.The naturalness of the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Matthew 8:1-34

6. The King Manifested by Signs of Divine Power. Chapters 8-9. CHAPTER 8 1. The Healing of the Leper. (Matthew 8:1-4 .) 2. The Healing of the Centurion's Servant. (Matthew 8:5-13 .) 3. The Healing of Peter's Wife's Mother.(Matthew 8:14-15 .) 4. The Healing of All. (Matthew 8:16-17 .) 5. The Self-seeking Scribe and the Test of True Discipleship.(Matthew 8:18-22 .) 6. His Power over Nature. (Matthew 8:23-27 .) 7. His Power over the Demons. (Matthew 8:28-34 .) With the eighth chapter we... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Matthew 8:30

8:30 And there was {f} a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.(f) On a hill, as Mark and Luke witness: Now Gederah, as Josephus records, book seventeen chapter thirteen, lived after the order of the Greeks and therefore we must not be surprised if there were swine there. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Matthew 8:34

8:34 And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought [him] that he would {g} depart out of their coasts.(g) Where men live as swine, there Christ does not abide, but demons. read more

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:1-34

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 8:30

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 8:31

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 8:32

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 8:34

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Matthew 8:1-34

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Matthew 8:1-34

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Matthew 8:1-34

Geneva Study Bible - Matthew 8:30

Geneva Study Bible - Matthew 8:34

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