Luke 8:39

“ No, go home and tell people how much God has done for you!” Then he sent him away. So the man went away and told people throughout the nearby town how much Jesus had done for him.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.

In Context

38The man from whom he had expelled the demons begged him saying, “ Please, let me go with you!” But Jesus refused. Instead, he said to him,

40When Jesus and the disciples returned to Capernaum, a crowd of people who had been waiting for him welcomed him.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:21He is the one whom you must praise. He is our God, and we have seen the great and amazing things that he has done for us.

Psalms 126:2We were extremely happy, and we [SYN] continued shouting joyfully. Then the other people-groups said about us, “Yahweh has done great things for them!”

Daniel 4:34“After those seven years ended, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven, and I acknowledged that what God said was true. Then I could think correctly again. I praised and worshiped the Supreme God, and I honored him, the one who lives forever. He rules forever; his kingdom will never end.

Luke 17:15Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God loudly.

1 Timothy 5:8If anyone does not take care of those who live in his own house, and especially if he does not take care of his own family, he has ◄denied/quit believing► what we believe and we should consider that he is worse than a person who does not believe in Christ.

Matthew Henry on Luke 8:23-40

Christ's Power over the Winds; Christ's Power over the Devils. 22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth. 23 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. 24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the… Read the whole commentary →

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