Matthew 8:1
NOW when he descended from the mount, great multitudes followed him.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
In Context
2And lo! a leper came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Cross References
Matthew 8:18Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave orders to pass to the other side.
Matthew 15:30And great multitudes came to him, bringing with them the lame, blind, dumb, cripples, and many others, and cast them down at the feet of Jesus; and he cured them all:
Matthew 20:29And as they were going out of Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
Luke 5:15Now the discourse concerning him more and more spread through the country: and vast multitudes came together to hear him, and to be cured by him of their disorders.
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 →