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Matthew 8:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

1. Christ's miracles of healing, and the secret of his ability to perform them. Observe:

(a) One of the chosen people, who had lost all social and religious privileges;

(b) a Gentile, an outsider by birth;

(c) the near relation of a personal follower;

(d) multitudes.

(a) The request by the sufferer;

(b) the request by another;

(c) apparently no request, yet the personal follower has Christ with him;

(d) the sufferers are brought to him.

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