Charles Spurgeon

As soon as Jesus and His companions had left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew.

“WE SEE BEFORE US small beginnings and grand endings. One man is called by the voice of Jesus, and then another; the house wherein they dwell is consecrated by the Lord's presence, and by-and-by the whole city is stirred from end to end with the…”

But the man went out and openly began to proclaim and spread the news.

“THE fact as it stands is well worthy of our notice and offers considerable encouragement to us. The multitudes came to hear our Lord and to see His miracles. He could not be hidden—wherever He appeared a congregation soon assembled.”

Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.”

“MY TEXT WILL REALLY CONSIST of these words: "He looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts." It is the divine Lord, the pitiful Jesus, the meek and lowly in heart, who is here described as being angry.”

Jerusalem, Idumea, the region beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to Him when they heard what great things He was doing.

“THE opposition of the great ones of the earth did not, after all, hinder the cause of Christ. The Pharisees, who were the leaders of religious thought, combined with the Herodians, who were the court party, to destroy Jesus, but at the very moment when…”

“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”

“I THINK the text suggests to us something about Satan, something about self and also something about sin and the Savior I. Without any preface, let us at once seek to find in the text SOMETHING ABOUT SATAN.”

And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.

“BRIEFLY consider this poor woman's case. She was afflicted with a disease of exceedingly long standing which not only wasted her strength and threatened to bring her speedily to the grave, but rendered her, according to the Jewish ceremonial Law, unclean, and therefore unable to…”

Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him trembling in fear, and she told Him the whole truth.

“JESUS was pressing through the throng to the house of Jairus to raise the ruler's dead daughter. But He is so profuse in goodness that He works another miracle while upon the road.”

Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.

“WE have here a word of comfort given to a shipload of Believers who were where their Lord had sent them.”

for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts had been hardened.

“Let us, with deep attention, consider the miracle of the loaves lest we fall into the same evil as that which happened to the disciples in the text.”

He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.

“How weary the Savior must have been of the idle prattle of the scribes and Pharisees! They are forever talking about washing hands before meals and washing pots and cups—and He is all the while occupied with the great griefs and sins of men and…”

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.

“THE disciples had come on board the vessel and had forgotten to bring bread with them—good men's memories sometimes fail them.”

When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

“OUR Savior very frequently healed the sick by a touch, for He intended to impress upon us the truth that the infirmities of fallen humanity can only be removed by contact with His own blessed humanity.”

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

“Many men have been made bankrupts through inattention to their books. No man ever loses anything by counting the cost, knowing his own expenditure, and keeping his debtor and creditor pretty closely up; but many men have been ruined by attempts which have been suggested…”

Suddenly, when they looked around, they saw no one with them except Jesus.

“THIS was the last sight the disciples had upon the mountain and it seems to me to have been the best. They saw "Jesus only." Jesus was often with His people.”

“If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”

“I BELIEVE THAT OUR OWN Authorized Version conveys to the mind of the reader the sense intended by the Evangelist; it is, however, exceedingly probable that in exact words the Revised Version is nearer to the original.”

“If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”

“I MUST take your minds back to the scene in the midst of which Christ uttered these memorable words. Christ had been upon the mountaintop, transfigured in the presence of His three disciples. During His absence the disciples remaining had been put to a nonplus.”

Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”

“THIS is the case of a man who knew well enough what he wanted and who was full of anxiety to obtain it. Indeed, he was so anxious to obtain it that he prayed most earnestly and most importunately for it.”

Now people were bringing the little children to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them, and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

“MY attention has been specially directed to this passage by the fact that it has been quoted against me by most of the authors of those sermons and letters which are, by a stretch of imagination, called “replies” to my sermon upon “Baptismal Regeneration.””

Now people were bringing the little children to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them, and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

“IT must be a very great sin, indeed, to hinder anybody from coming to Christ. He is the only way of salvation from the wrath of God.”

Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have…

“YOUR mind's eye can see that procession yonder. Notice it carefully. At the head of it there walks One whom we rightly call Master and Lord. You may know Him by the prints of the nails in His hands and feet.”

Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside…

“[Another Sermon by Mr. Spurgeon upon the same text is #266, Volume 5—THE BLIND BEGGAR.] The blind man described in this narrative is a picture of what I earnestly desire that every hearer and reader of my sermons may become.”

“What do you want Me to do for you?” Jesus asked. “Rabboni,” said the blind man, “let me see again.”

“No doubt our Lord's disciples imagined that He was going up to Jerusalem to take unto Himself the Kingdom. They hoped that they would be partakers of that earthly grandeur which they had fondly pictured would glitter around the Person of the Son of David.”

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

“THIS VERSE has something to do with the faith of miracles; but I think it hath far more reference to the miracle of faith. We shall say at any rate, this morning, consider it in that light.”

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

“OUR SAVIOUR said, “This is the first and great commandment.” It is “the first” commandment—the first for antiquity, for this is older than even the ten commandments of the written law.”

When Jesus saw that the man had answered wisely, He said, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any further.

“‘And when Jesus saw’ [’saw him,’ so it should be] ‘that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.’Mark 12:34. THIS MAN BEGAN with Christ as a foe, and he ended as a friend.”