Luke 8 · John Wesley
2Thy faith hath saved thee - Not thy love. Love is salvation.
3Mary Magdalene - Or Mary of Magdala, a town in Galilee: probably the person mentioned in the last chapter.
16Who - keep it - Not like the highway side: And bring forth fruit - Not like the thorny ground: With perseverance - Not like the stony.
17No man having lighted a candle - As if ho had said, And let your good fruit appear openly. Mt 5:15; Mr 4:21; Lu 11:33.
18For nothing is hid - Strive not to conceal it at all; for you can conceal nothing long. Mt 10:26; Mr 4:22; Lu 12:2.
19The word commonly translated seemeth, wherever it occurs, does not weaken, but greatly strengthens the sense. Mt 13:12; Mr 4:25; Lu 19:26.
30For many times it had caught him - Therefore our compassionate Lord made the more haste to cast him out.
32The abyss - That is, the bottomless pit.
33To enter into the swine - Not that they were any easier in the swine than out of them. Had it been so, they would not so soon have dislodged themselves, by destroying the herd.
53She is not dead but sleepeth - Her soul is not separated finally from the body; and this short separation is rather to be called sleep than death.