Verse 1
1. In the mean time The Greek Εν οις signifies, At which times. It refers to the period succeeding the contest with and the denunciation of the Pharisees in the last chapter; but the plural number indicates that the connection is not immediate.
An innumerable multitude In the original μυριαδων , MYRIADS; that is, tens of thousands; so that, if taken literally, it must indicate at least twenty thousand.
Commentators do not seem to observe that this is an assemblage in PERAEA, scarce paralleled by anything in Galilee. And such an assemblage must have been called together only in expectation that a great discourse, probably as part of the contest with the hierarchy, was to be delivered. In allusion to the numbers said by the Evangelist to be present, we will call it
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