Luke 9:6
in Luke 9So they set out and went from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere.
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ASV
And they departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the gospel, and healing everywhere.
KJV
And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
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This verse in Luke 9
Commentary
10 notes on this verseBut when the Lord had girded His disciples as soldiers of God with divine virtue and wise admonitions, sending them to the Jews as teachers and physicians, they afterwards went forth, as it follows, And they departed, and went through the towns preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
This site's exposition
Take nothing for the journey
on Luke 9:3-6
The Twelve take nothing for the road, so the mission trains them in dependence. To shake the dust off your feet turns the gesture Israel made on leaving Gentile soil against a town that refuses its Messiah's messengers.
This site's exposition
went from village to village
The apostles do what they were sent to do in verse 2. Gill says they set out from the place where Christ was, at least somewhere in Galilee. Matthew Henry says His spiritual presence went with them after they left His side.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Christ had the power to set the human race free from all these evils—not only the Romans but also the Persians and simply every race of barbarians. He succeeded in doing this with no force of arms, nor expenditure of money, nor by starting wars of conquest, nor by inflaming men to battle. He had only eleven men to start with, men who were undistinguished, without learning, ill-informed, destitute, poorly clad, without weapons, or sandals, men who had but a single tunic to wear.
The Medieval Church2 voices
But they went out and went about the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere. What the Apostles preached, or how they healed, Mark explains more fully. He says, they preached that people should repent, and anointed many sick people with oil, and healed them. …
And going out, they went about etc. After the authority committed and the propriety enjoined, the Evangelist here subjoins thirdly the utility conjoined. Now a fourfold utility is shown to have followed upon the preaching of the Apostles, namely the arousing of people to hearing, …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
): They departed from their Master's presence; yet, having still his spiritual presence with them, his eye and his arm going along with them, and, thus borne up in their work, they went through the towns, some or other of them, all the towns within the circuit appointed them, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
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And they departed,.... That is, the apostles, as the Syriac and Persic versions express it: they went from Christ, and the place where he was, from Capernaum, at least from some place in Galilee: and went through the towns; the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions add, "and cities"; that is, of Judea, as well as Galilee, even the whole land of Israel: preaching the Gospel; which explains what is meant by the kingdom of God, Luk 9:2 and healing everywhere; all sorts of bodily diseases, wherever they came.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
J.C. Ryle1816–1900
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)
proposed
These verses contain our Lord's instructions to His twelve apostles, when He sent them forth the first time to preach the Gospel. The passage is one which throws much light on the work of Christian ministers in every age. No doubt the miraculous power which the apostles possessed, made their position very unlike that of any other body of men in the Church. No doubt, in many respects — they stood alone, and had no successors. Yet the words of our Lord in this place must not be confined entirely to the apostles.
A commentator
J.C. Ryle1816–1900
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)
proposed
These verses contain our Lord's instructions to His twelve apostles, when He sent them forth the first time to preach the Gospel. The passage is one which throws much light on the work of Christian ministers in every age. No doubt the miraculous power which the apostles possessed, made their position very unlike that of any other body of men in the Church. No doubt, in many respects — they stood alone, and had no successors. Yet the words of our Lord in this place must not be confined entirely to the apostles. They contain deep wisdom for Christian teachers and preachers, for all time. Let us observe, firstly — that the commission to the apostles contained special reference to the demons and bodily sickness . We read that Jesus gave them "authority over all demons, and to cure diseases." We see here, as in a looking-glass — two of the principal parts of the Christian minister's business. We must not expect him to cast out evil spirits — but we may fairly expect him to "resist the devil and all his works," and to keep up a constant warfare against the evil prince of this world. We must not expect him to work miraculous cures — but we may expect him to take a special interest in all sick people, to visit them, sympathize with them, and help them, if needful, as far as he can. The minister who neglects the sick members of his flock, is no true pastor. He must not be surprised if people say that he cares for the fleece of his sheep — more than for their health . Likewise, the minister who allows drunkenness, blasphemy, impurity, reveling, and the like, to go on among his congregation unreproved — is omitting a plain duty of his office. He is not warring against the devil. He is no true successor of the apostles. Let us observe, secondly — that one of the principal works which the apostles were commissioned to take up was preaching .
The words behind it
10 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ἐξερχόμενοι | exerchomenoi | Going forth | G1831 → | 216 times |
| δὲ | de | then | G1161 → | 2765 times |
| διήρχοντο | dierchonto | they were passing | G1330 → | 43 times |
| κατὰ | kata | through | G2596 → | 468 times |
| τὰς | tas | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| κώμας | komas | villages | G2968 → | 27 times |
| εὐαγγελιζόμενοι | euangelizomenoi | evangelising | G2097 → | 54 times |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| θεραπεύοντες | therapeuontes | healing | G2323 → | 43 times |
| πανταχοῦ.¶ | pantachou | everywhere. | G3837 → |
ἐξερχόμενοιGoing forth
exerchomenoiG1831 →216 times
δὲthen
deG1161 →2765 times
διήρχοντοthey were passing
dierchontoG1330 →43 times
κατὰthrough
kataG2596 →468 times
τὰςthe
tasG3588 →19766 times
κώμαςvillages
komasG2968 →27 times
εὐαγγελιζόμενοιevangelising
euangelizomenoiG2097 →54 times
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
θεραπεύοντεςhealing
therapeuontesG2323 →43 times
πανταχοῦ.¶everywhere.
pantachouG3837 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Mark 16:20And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 2:4–5
My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
- Acts 14:3
So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who affirmed the message of His grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders.
- Hebrews 2:4
and was affirmed by God through signs, wonders, various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will.
- Acts 8:4–6
Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.
- Romans 15:19
by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 2:4–5
Through
Acts 5:15As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
it leads to
- Acts 19:11–12
God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul,
- Matthew 14:36
and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
- John 14:12
Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
- Acts 19:11–12
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, On the Gospel of Luke; Bonaventure, Commentary on Luke, Chapter 9; Eusebius of Caesarea, Catena Aurea by Aquinas; J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE PAGANS 1.7; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.