For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
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Gill's Exposition
For he had healed many,.... Of various diseases, and the fame of this brought more still to him:
insomuch that they pressed upon him; or pushed upon him, with great eagerness and violence. The…
Barnes' Notes
As many as had plagues - As many as had diseases or maladies of body or mind. The word plague, now confined to the pestilence, does not express the meaning of the original, and tends to mislead.
Adam Clarke
They pressed upon him - Rushed upon him, επιπιπτειν - through eagerness to have their spiritual and bodily maladies immediately removed.
Plagues - Rather disorders, μαϚιγας; properly such disorders as…
Here, as before, we have our Lord Jesus busy at work in the synagogue first, and then by the sea side; to teach us that his presence should not be confined either to the one or to the other, but,…
Cambridge Bible
plagues The word thus rendered denotes (1) a whip or scourge, and is used in this sense in Act 22:24; Heb 11:36; (2) a plague or disease of the body. Comp. Mar 5:29; Mar 5:34; Luk 7:21.
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