24 And his fame spread abroad through all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people, that were taken with divers diseases, and [a]torments, and them that were possessed with devils, and those which were [b]lunatic, and those that had the [c]palsy: and he healed them.

25 And there followed him great multitudes out of Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:24 The word signifieth properly, the stone wherewith gold is tried: and by a borrowed kind of speech is applied to all kinds of examination by torture, when as by rough dealing and torments, we go about to draw out the truth of men, which otherwise they would not confess: and in this place it is taken for those diseases, which put sick men to great woe.
  2. Matthew 4:24 Which at every full Moon, or other changes of the Moon, are shrewdly troubled and diseased.
  3. Matthew 4:24 Weak and feeble men, who have the parts of their body loosed, and so weakened, that they are neither able to gather them up together, nor put them out as they would.

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