Matius 4:23-24

Jesus’ Healing Ministry

4:23 Jesus ¹  went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, ²  preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people. 4:24 So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People ³  brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, ⁴  paralytics, and those possessed by demons, ⁵  and he healed them.

Matius 9:35

Workers for the Harvest

9:35 Then Jesus went throughout all the towns ⁶  and villages, teaching in their synagogues, ⁷  preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness. ⁸ 

Matius 11:1

11:1 When ⁹  Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

Matius 14:14

14:14 As he got out he saw the large crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Matius 14:36

14:36 They begged him if ¹⁰  they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

Matius 15:30

15:30 Then ¹¹  large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They ¹²  laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

Matius 19:2

19:2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

[4:23]  ¹ tn Grk “And he.”

[4:23]  ² sn Synagogues were places for Jewish prayer and worship, with recognized leadership (cf. Luke 8:41). Though the origin of the synagogue is not entirely clear, it seems to have arisen in the postexilic community during the intertestamental period. A town could establish a synagogue if there were at least ten men. In normative Judaism of the NT period, the OT scripture was read and discussed in the synagogue by the men who were present (see the Mishnah, m. Megillah 3-4; m. Berakhot 2).

[4:24]  ³ tn Grk “And they”; “they” is probably an indefinite plural, referring to people in general rather than to the Syrians (cf. v. 25).

[4:24]  ⁴ tn Grk “those who were moonstruck,” possibly meaning “lunatic” (so NAB), although now the term is generally regarded as referring to some sort of seizure disorder such as epilepsy (L&N 23.169; BDAG 919 s.v. σεληνιάζομαι).

[4:24]  ⁵ tn The translation has adopted a different phrase order here than that in the Greek text. The Greek text reads, “People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those possessed by demons, epileptics, and paralytics.” Even though it is obvious that four separate groups of people are in view here, following the Greek word order could lead to the misconception that certain people were possessed by epileptics and paralytics. The word order adopted in the translation avoids this problem.

[9:35]  ⁶ tn Or “cities.”

[9:35]  ⁷ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[9:35]  ⁸ tn Grk “and every [kind of] sickness.” Here “every” was not repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[11:1]  ⁹ tn Grk “And it happened when.” The introductory phrase καὶ ἐγένετο (kai egeneto, “it happened that”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[14:36]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”

[15:30]  ¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Then.”

[15:30]  ¹² tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.