Matthew 4:24 — Meaning and Application

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“And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.”

Matthew 4:24

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And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and {from} Decapolis, and {from} Jerusalem, and {from} Judaea, and {from} beyond Jordan.

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Matthew 4:1

"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil."

Matthew 4:2

"And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred."

Matthew 4:3

"And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread."

Matthew 4:4

"But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

Matthew 4:5

"Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,"

Matthew 4:6

"And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in {their} hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone."

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