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MATTHEW 9:31 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 9:30Matt 9:32
“But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.”
But they went away and spread his fame through all that district. The disobedience to the secrecy command — they spread his fame through all that district — is not commended but it is reported. The spread of news about Jesus is unstoppable; the warning against it is overridden by the enthusiasm of those who have been healed. Mark's gospel presents this pattern most prominently (Mark 1:44–45; 7:36). The news that spreads creates the crowds that produce both the receptive and the hostile responses that occupy the rest of the gospel.

Church Fathers on Matthew 9:31

The miracles that had gone before of the ruler’s d aug hter, and the woman with the issue of blood, are now followed by that of two blind men, that what death and disease had there witnessed, that blindness might now witness. 'And as Jesus passed thence,' that is, from the ruler’s house, there followed him two blind men, crying, and saying, Have mercy on us, thou Son of David.'

Jerome · 4th century

Here is no small charge against the Jews, that these men, having lost their sight, yet believe by means of their hearing only; while they who had sight, would not believe the miracles that were done. Observe their eagerness; they do not simply come to Him, but with crying, and asking for nothing but mercy; they call Him Son of David because that seemed to be a name of honour.

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom., xxxii

Rightly they call Him Son of David, because the Virgin Mary was of the line of David.

Remigius · 9th century
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