“And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.”
That evening after sunset, the people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon-possessed — the evening timing is significant: the Sabbath ended at sunset, and only then would Capernaum residents feel free to carry the sick (which might have been considered Sabbath labor). The day has been: synagogue service with exorcism, Simon's house with fever healing, and now — at the Sabbath's close — the whole city's sick gathered at the door. The two categories (sick and demon-possessed) reflect the two healings performed earlier in the day: physical and spiritual, fever and unclean spirit. The kingdom's arrival addresses both dimensions of human suffering simultaneously.
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