immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him, Matt. iv. 18-22. And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him, ix. 9. The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me, John i. 43. Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more, 2 Cor. v. 16. b It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found, Luke xv. 32. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins, Ephes. ii. 1. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved ;) 5. But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth, 1 Tim. v. 6. VER. 23. Kai iμ¤ávri auto siç тò πhoïov, huohoúθησαν αὐτῷ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ. And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. VER. 24. A. D. 31. times of trouble? Psal. x. 1. Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter." Awake, why sleepest thou, O LORD? arise, cast us not off for ever, xliv. 22, 23. Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God, Isa. 1. 9, 10. And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm, Luke viii. 24. VER. 26. γόπιστοι; Τότε ἐγερθεὶς ἐπετίμησε τοῖς ἀνέμοις, καὶ τῇ θαλάσσῃ· καὶ ἐγένετο γαλήνη μεγάλη. Καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· Τί δειλοί ἐστε, όλι And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? a Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. a But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Καὶ ἰδοὺ, σεισμὸς μέγας ἐγένετο ἐν τῇ him! Matt. viii. 27. Or who shut θαλάσσῃ, ὥστε τὸ πλοῖον καλύπτεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν κυμάτων· αὐτὸς δὲ ἐκάθευδε. aAnd, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. a And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, car est thou not that we perish? Mark iv. 37, 38. : up the sea with doors, when it brake waves. tier than the noise of many waters, The LORD on high is mighyea, than the mighty waves of the sea, xciii. 3, 4. Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth, civ. 6-9. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm à calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven, cvii. 28-30. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob, cxiv. 3-7. When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth, Prov. viii. 28, 29. Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer, Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem ? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned, Isa. 1. 2—4. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth, Nah. i. 4. And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the might he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed A. D. 31. by them. But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out: For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid. And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered, Mark vi. 48-51. And he had in his hand a little book open and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, Rev. x. 2. VER. 27. Οἱ δὲ ἄνθρωποι ἐθαύμασαν, λέγοντες. Ποταπός ἐστιν οὗτος, ὅτι καὶ οἱ ἄνεμοι καὶ ἡ θάλασσα ὑπακούουσιν αὐτῷ; a But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! a Then they that were in 'the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God, Matt. xiv. 53. And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? Mark iv. 41. VER. 28. Καὶ ἐλθόντι αὐτῷ εἰς τὸ πέραν εἰς τὴν χώραν τῶν Γεργεσηνῶν, ὑπήντησαν αὐτῷ δύο δαιμονιζόμενοι, ἐκ τῶν μνημείων ἐξερχόπαρελθεῖν διὰ τῆς ὁδοῦ ἐκείνης. μενοι, χαλεποὶ λίαν, ὥστε μὴ ἰσχύειν τινὰ And a when he was come to the other side into the country of the b Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, d coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. a And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes, Mark v. 1. And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over-against Galilee, Luke viii. 26. b When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou, Deut. vii. 1. A. D. 31. MATT. VIII. 28-31. < See parallels on clause 4. ver. 24. ch. iv. dAnd when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any mun tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones, Mark v. 2-5. And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs, Luke viii. 27. For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness, 29. VER. 29. Καὶ ἰδοὺ, ἔκραξαν λέγοντες· Τί ἡμῖν καὶ σο, Ἰησοῦ υἱὲ τοῦ Θεοῦ; ἦλθες ὧδε πρὸ καιροῦ βασανίσαι ἡμᾶς; And, behold, they cried out, saying, a What have we to do with thee, Jesus, b thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? a Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God, Mark i. 24. And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not, v. 7. Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God, Luke iv. 34. When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not, viii. 28. b And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, A. D. 31. command that these stones be made bread, Matt. iv. 3. And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God, Mark iii. 11. And devils also came out of many, crying. out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ, Luke iv. 41. The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation, Acts xvi. 17. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble, Jam. ii. 19. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgAnd the angels ment, 2 Pet. ii. 4. which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day, Jude 6. VER. 30. *Ην δὲ μακρὰν ἀπ' αὐτῶν ἀγέλη χοίρων πολλῶν βοσκομένη. And there was a good way off from theman herd of many swine feeding. a And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud: it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead Which recarcass, Deut. xiv. 8. main among VER. 31. Οἱ δὲ δαίμονες παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν, λέγοντες· Εἰ ἐκβάλλεις ἡμᾶς, ἐπίτρεψον ἡμῖν ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὴν ἀγέλην τῶν χοίρων. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. a And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them, Mark v. 7. 12. And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said Legion because many devils were entered into him. And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them And he suffered them. Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked, Luke viii. 30-33. : VER. 32. Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Υπάγετε. Oi dè, ἐξελθόντες ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὴν ἀγέλην τῶν χοίξων· καὶ ἰδοὺ, ὥρμησε πᾶσα ἡ ἀγέλη τῶν χοίρων κατὰ τοῦ κρημνοῦ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ ἀπέθανον ἐν τοῖς ὕδασιν. A. D. 31. all that a man hath will he give for his life But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life, ii. 3-6. For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done, Acts iv. 28. b And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand ;) and were choked in the sea, Mark v. 13. VER. 33. Οἱ δὲ βόσκοντες ἔφυγον· καὶ ἀπελθόντες εἰς τὴν πόλιν, ἀπήγγειλαν πάντα, καὶ τὰ τῶν δαιμονιζομένων. a And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils. a And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done. And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the And he said unto them, a Go. And legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his when they were come out, they went right mind: and they were afraid. into the herd of swine: and, behold, And they that saw it told them how bthe whole herd of swine ran violently it befel to him that was possessed with down a steep place into the sea, and pe-swine, Mark v. 14-16. When they the devil, and also concerning the rished in the waters. And a Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand, Job i. 10-12. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city, and in the country. Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. what means he that was possessed They also which saw it told them by of the devils was healed, Luke viii. 34-36. VER. 34. Καὶ ἰδοὺ, πᾶσα ἡ πόλις ἐξῆ λθεν εἰς συνάν τησιν τῷ Ἰησοῦ· καὶ ἰδόντες αὐτὸν, παρεκά λεσαν ὅπως μεταβῇ ἀπὸ τῶν ὁρίων αὐτῶν. a And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts. And they began to pray him to de : A. D. 31. part out of their coasts. And when in a bed a man which was taken with he was come into the ship, he that a palsy and they sought means to had been possessed with the devil bring him in, and to lay him before prayed him that he might be with him, him. And when they could not find Mark v. 17-18. Then the whole by what way they might bring him in multitude of the country of the Gada- because of the multitude, they went renes round about besought him to upon the housetop, and let him down depart from them; for they were ta- through the tiling, with his couch, into ken with great fear: and he went up the midst before Jesus, Luke v. 18, 19. into the ship and returned back again. Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying, Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him, Luke viii. 37-39. CHAP. IX.-VER. 1. Καὶ ἐμβὰς εἰς τὸ πλοῖον, διεπέρασε, καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν πόλιν. And a he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came b into his own city. a Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again, Luke viii. 37. b And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Čapernaum, which is upon the sea-coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim, Matt. iv. 13. VER. 2. Καὶ ἰδοὺ, προσέφερον αὐτῷ παραλυτικὸν ἐπὶ κλίνης βεβλημένον· καὶ ἰδὼν ὁ Ἰησοῦς τὴν πίστιν αὐτῶν, εἶπετῷ παραλυτικῷ· Θάρ | σει τέκνον, ἀφέωνταί σοι αἱ ἁμαρτίαι σου. And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith, said unto the sick of the palsy; e Son, d be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. a And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them. And they come unto him bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four, Mark ii. 1-3. And, behold, men brought b And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee, Mark ii. 4, 5. And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee, Luke v. 20. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole, ver.22. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, be whole of thy plague, Mark v. 34. have ye any meat? They answered him, No, John xxi. 5. sion is forgiven, whose sin is covered. d Blessed is he whose transgresBlessed is the man unto whom the in whose Spirit there is no guile, LORD imputeth not iniquity, and Ps. xxxii. 1, 2. thy bread with joy, and drink thy Go thy way, eat wine with a merry heart; for God Comfort ye, comfort_ye my people, now accepteth thy works, Ec. ix. 7. saith your God. fortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto Speak ye comher, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins, Isa. xl. 1, 2. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee, xliv. 22. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: |