Luke 8:39 — Community Reflections

LUKE 8:39 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.”

Return home and tell how much God has done for you. So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him — the commission (tell how much God has done for you) is fulfilled with the detail that he told how much Jesus had done — the narrator's identification of God's action with Jesus' action is the Christological point. All over town: the geographic scope of his testimony expands throughout the entire town.

Church Fathers on Luke 8:39

The Savior, as He sailed with His disciples, came to a port, as it is said, And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

Many accurate copies have neither “Gerazenes” nor “Gadarenes,” but “Gergezenes.” For Gadara is a city in Judea, but neither lake nor sea is found at it, and Geraza is a city of Arabia, having neither lake nor sea near. But Gergeza, from which the Gergezenes are called, is an ancient city near the lake of Tiberias, above which is a rock hanging over the lake, into which they say the swine were dashed down by the devils. But since Gadara and Geraza border upon the land of the…
TITUS BOST ·

For Geraza is a famous city of Arabia, on the other side of the Jordan, close to the mountain of Galaad, which was possessed by the tribe of Manasseh, and not far from the lake of Tiberias, into which the swine were cast headlong.
Bede · 8th century

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