Matthew 8:1
As he went down from the mountain, great crowds followed him.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
In Context
2And behold! a leper came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord if you choose, you can make me clean."
Cross References
Matthew 8:18When Jesus saw the great crowds about him, he had given directions to cross to the other side,
Matthew 15:30Great crowds came to him, bringing the crippled, the blind, the maimed, the dumb, and many others. They laid them at his feet and he healed them;
Matthew 20:29Now as they were leaving Jericho a great crowd followed him.
Luke 5:15But all the more the report about him continued to spread; and great crowds began to come together to hear him, and to be healed 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 →