Matthew 8:1-9:38 KJV

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-4

The leper. Jesus, in his sermon on the mount, spake with an authority that asserted his Divinity. He claimed to be the King and Judge of men. Coming down from the mount, followed by the multitudes who were astonished at his doctrine, he wrought, a miracle which proved his authority to be no assumption. The miracles of Christ were not only miracles of power; they were, moreover, miracles of wisdom—parables of omnipotence. I. LEPROSY IS AN EMBLEM OF SIN . 1 . It is a most... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-13

The leper and the centurion. The miracles of our Lord are an integral and necessary part of God's revelation of himself to men. Christ came not so much to reveal God's power as to reveal God's disposition to use that power for us; not so much to show God's holiness as to show his desire and purpose to make us also holy. Miracles, therefore, lay as naturally and inevitably in the way of Christ's work as his teaching with authority did. I. THE HEALING OF THE LEPER is the first... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-17

1. Christ ' s miracles of healing , and the secret of his ability to perform them. Observe: (a) One of the chosen people, who had lost all social and religious privileges; (b) a Gentile, an outsider by birth; (c) the near relation of a personal follower; (d) multitudes. (a) The request by the sufferer; (b) the request by another; (c) apparently no request, yet the personal follower has Christ with him; (d) the sufferers are brought to him. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-34

MESSIAH 'S WORK AS COMPLEMENTARY TO HIS TEACHING . We return in this section to matter which resembles that of Mark and Luke, and undoubtedly belongs to the Framework ( vide Introduction). St. Matthew has given a lengthy summary of the teaching of the Christ, and he now supplements it by a summary of his daily work. He is not concerned with the chronological connexion of the incidents here narrated, for this is evidently to him a matter of but secondary importance. He... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 8:1

When he was come down from the mountain - That is, immediately on his descending from the mountain. His discourse had attracted great attention, and the fame of it drew together great multitudes, who were convinced that he had come from God. Then follows, in this chapter and the chapter succeeding, a succession of “miracles” not less remarkable than his teaching was; miracles that tended to confirm beyond a doubt the impression made by his sermon that he was sent from God.Great multitudes... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 8:1

Matthew 8:1. When he was come down from the mountain Where he had delivered the divine discourse contained in the preceding chapters; great multitudes followed him To the town toward which he went, desirous, probably, of receiving further instruction from him, or of witnessing the performance of some of his miraculous acts. And, behold, there came a leper Leprosies, in those countries, were seldom curable by natural means, any more than palsies or lunacy. It is likely, though this leper... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 8:1-4

30. Jesus cleanses a leper (Matthew 8:1-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16)People with leprosy and other skin diseases were considered unclean and a danger to public health. They were outcasts from society (Leviticus 13:45-46). If they were healed they had to offer sacrifices to symbolize their cleansing and express their thanks (Leviticus 14:1-20).On the first recorded occasion when Jesus healed a leper, he did what anyone else would normally avoid doing; he touched the man. He then told the man to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 8:1

When = And when. from = away from. Greek. apo. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 8:1

MATT. 8And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. (Matthew 8:1)The first result of the Sermon on the Mount was to establish the popularity of Jesus on a vast scale. To be sure, it did not occur to the great multitudes that followed him that the strict principles he advocated would, in fact, be rejected by the vast majority of them who so eagerly followed. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Matthew 8:1

1. When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-34

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 8:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 8:1

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 8:1-4

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 8:1

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 8:1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Matthew 8:1

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