But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
When He knew the Pharisees had counseled together how they might destroy Him, Jesus withdrew Himself from that place. Their purpose to destroy Him was for His restoring human maladies on the Sabbath. After His withdrawal great multitudes followed Him from the area.
He healed them all, healing every suffering person who was brought to Him or who came to Him. Through the years of His earthly ministry, as He went through the towns and villages of the land, He healed all who came to Him and turned none away empty. His healing met both bodily and mental suffering, including suffering caused by evil spirits and oppression under Satan's cruel power, which He alone could break.
His healings were acts of mercy flowing from His love and pity for afflicted humanity, belonged to His mission, and expressed His desire to continue His work of healing and relieving sufferers. He worked quietly without striving and crying in contention, in humility and an unassuming manner, charging those healed that they should not make Him known, though the enthusiasm of the recipients could not be restrained. That lowly way stood in contrast to religious display, and because of it the Pharisees rejected Him. By so withdrawing and working quietly while healing and showing judgment to the Gentiles, He fulfilled the prophecy in Isaiah of Behold My Servant, whom I have chosen, who would bring judgment unto victory and in whose name the Gentiles would trust.
As the great Healer who is present though unseen, He still brings relief and healing in medical institutions, so faith in Him by the physician should lead the sick to expect large things. The verse calls for fulfilling the divine commission by sending the truth quickly to all the world, extending the gospel of His grace in the highways and hedges and in cities and villages and new places, without binding the work about so that truth is hindered or treating opportunities to spread it with indifference.
When He knew the Pharisees had counseled together how they might destroy Him, Jesus withdrew Himself from that place. Their purpose to destroy Him was for His restoring human maladies on the Sabbath. After His withdrawal great multitudes followed Him from the area.
He healed them all, healing every suffering person who was brought to Him or who came to Him. Through the years of His earthly ministry, as He went through the towns and villages of the land, He healed all who came to Him and turned none away empty. His healing met both bodily and mental suffering, including suffering caused by evil spirits and oppression under Satan's cruel power, which He alone could break.
His healings were acts of mercy flowing from His love and pity for afflicted humanity, belonged to His mission, and expressed His desire to continue His work of healing and relieving sufferers. He worked quietly without striving and crying in contention, in humility and an unassuming manner, charging those healed that they should not make Him known, though the enthusiasm of the recipients could not be restrained. That lowly way stood in contrast to religious display, and because of it the Pharisees rejected Him. By so withdrawing and working quietly while healing and showing judgment to the Gentiles, He fulfilled the prophecy in Isaiah of Behold My Servant, whom I have chosen, who would bring judgment unto victory and in whose name the Gentiles would trust.
As the great Healer who is present though unseen, He still brings relief and healing in medical institutions, so faith in Him by the physician should lead the sick to expect large things. The verse calls for fulfilling the divine commission by sending the truth quickly to all the world, extending the gospel of His grace in the highways and hedges and in cities and villages and new places, without binding the work about so that truth is hindered or treating opportunities to spread it with indifference.