Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 5:15

"But so much the more went abroad the report concerning him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed of their infirmities." — Luke 5:15 (ASV)

And great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

I wish that all congregations would come together from the same motives, to hear and to be healed by Christ. What is your disease, my hearer? What ails your soul? What is the mischief in your spirit?

What is the malady in your heart? Jesus can heal you. Oh, that you would at once seek to be healed by him!

But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

There was a double attraction about the Lord Jesus—his sweet, instructive speech, and his gracious, healing hand. There is a somewhat similar attraction still in every true gospel ministry, not the attraction of the mere words of human eloquence, but in the truth which every faithful minister preaches, and in that matchless soul-healing power which goes with the Word wherever it is believingly heard.

And great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

Two words that I long to see linked together in this house: to hear, and to be healed by him. You come to hear; can you not also come "to be healed by him of your infirmities"?

But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him:

Fame is like fire. If you heap anything on it to prevent it from spreading, it often acts as fuel to the flame; so, the very effort to hide the light of Christ's power, made it spread all the more widely.