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When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
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Power Validates Preaching
Commentators note that this verse is a crucial transition. After delivering the authoritative teaching of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus descends to perform miracles. These signs serve as divine proof, demonstrating that the one who spoke with such authority also possesses the power to heal and save. His works validate His words.
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Matthew
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19th Century
Anglican
Here we begin a series of events which, in St. Matthew's arrangement, follow the great discourse. These events are also found in St. Mark and St. L…
Baptist
Curiosity drew the crowd. Our Lord was popular, but He never prized this popularity for its own sake. He was too wise to think much of what is such…
Jesus came down out of the hills (), where the Sermon on the Mount had been delivered; and the great crowds (4:23–25; 7:28–29) still pursued him.
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16th Century
Protestant
And when he had come down from the mountain, Matthew now returns to the course of the history. He had previously said that Christ went…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
When he was come down from the mountain Into which he went up, and preached the sermon recorded in the "three" prece…
Presbyterian
This verse refers to the close of the foregoing sermon. Those to whom Christ has made himself known desire to know more of him.
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13th Century
Catholic
It might appear that the Lord was speaking out of boastfulness; for that reason, He commends His authority by signs.
Firstly, therefore, sig…
