Matthew 8:1
When Jesus went down from the hillside, large crowds followed him.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 8:18Jesus saw the crowd around him, but he needed to rest. So he told his disciples to take him by boat to the other side of the lake.
Matthew 15:30Crowds kept coming to him for the next two days and brought lame, crippled, and blind people, those who were unable to talk, and many others who had various sicknesses. They laid them in front of Jesus so that he would heal them [SYN]. And he healed them.
Matthew 20:29As we were leaving Jericho city, a large crowd of people followed us.
Luke 5:15But many people heard the man’s report of what Jesus had done. The result was that large crowds came to Jesus to hear his message and to be healed of their sicknesses {so that he would heal their sicknesses}.
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 →