Matthew 8:1
When Jesus came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 8:18When Jesus saw the large crowds around him, he gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea.
Matthew 15:30Large crowds came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, crippled, and many others. They put them at the feet of Jesus, and he healed them.
Matthew 20:29As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him.
Luke 5:15But the news about Jesus spread even more, and large crowds would gather together to hear him and to be healed 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 →