Matthew 8:34
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Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their region.
Commentaries
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HEALING OF A LEPER. ( = Mar 1:40-45; Luk 5:12-16). (Mat 8:1-4) When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
Open source ↗The evangelist having, in the foregoing chapters, given us a specimen of our Lord's preaching, proceeds now to give some instances of the miracles he wrought, which prove him a Teacher come from God, and the great Healer of a diseased world. In this chapter we have, I. Christ's cleansing of a leper (Mat 8:1-4). II. His curing a palsy and fever (Mat 8:5-18). III. His communing with two that were disposed to follow him (Mat 8:19-22). IV. His controlling the tempest (Mat 8:23-27). V. His casting out devils (Mat 8:28-34).
Open source ↗8:34 The tragedy of the incident is that those who witnessed the Son of God’s power to give salvation feared having their world upset, so they rejected him.
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They came to appease them and led them out, requesting that they leave the city.
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”
When the man saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, shouting in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You not to torture me!”
When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?”
But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.
“What do You want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have You come here to torture us before the appointed time?”
So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”