Matthew Henry Commentary Matthew 4:23-25

"And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness among the people. And the report of him went forth into all Syria: and they brought unto him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases and torments, possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied; and he healed them. And there followed him great multitudes from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and [from] beyond the Jordan." — Matthew 4:23-25 (ASV)

Wherever Christ went, He confirmed His Divine mission by miracles, which were emblems of the healing power of His doctrine and the influences of the Spirit that accompanied it.

We do not now find the Savior's miraculous healing power in our bodies; but if we are cured by medicine, the praise is equally His.

Three general words are used here. He healed every sickness or disease; none was too bad, none too hard, for Christ to heal with a word.

Three diseases are named: paralysis, which is the greatest weakness of the body; severe mental affliction, which is the greatest malady of the mind; and demonic possession, which is the greatest misery and calamity for both.

Yet Christ healed all these, and by thus curing bodily diseases, He showed that His great errand into the world was to cure spiritual maladies.

Sin is the sickness, disease, and torment of the soul: Christ came to take away sin and so to heal the soul.