Matthew 8:1
And when he had come down from the mountain, many multitudes followed him.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
In Context
2And behold, a leper came and did him homage, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Cross References
Matthew 8:18But when Jesus saw many multitudes about him, he gave orders to depart to the other side.
Matthew 15:30And many multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deaf, the maimed, and many others; and laid them at the feet of Jesus, and he cured them;
Matthew 20:29And as they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
Luke 5:15But his fame went abroad the more; and many multitudes came together to hear, and to be cured by him of their infirmities.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 8:1
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, ver. 1-4 . II. His curing a palsy and fever, ver. 5-18 . III. His communing with two that were disposed to follow him, ver. 19-22 . IV. His controlling the tempest, ver. 23-27 . V. His casting out devils, ver. 28-34 . Read the whole commentary →