Matthew 9:31 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 9:31

But they went out and spread the news about Him throughout the land.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But they went forth, and spread abroad his fame in all that land.

KJV

But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.

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Commentary

2 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Matthew (1274)

But they, not unmindful of the gift received, went about and published it, as it says in Isaiah (63:7): "I will recount the Lord's mercies." But did they sin by acting contrary to the Lord's command? I say that they did not, because they acted …

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 30, 31.) And Jesus warned them, saying, "See that no one knows." But when they went out, they spread the news about him throughout that whole land. And the Lord, fleeing the glory of boastfulness because of his humility, had commanded this. And they, because of the remembrance of his grace, cannot remain silent about the kindness. Note, therefore, that something contrary to what was commanded must have happened. These blind men are healed in the tenth place.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame - The report of what he had done. This was not unnatural for them. They were so filled with joy that they could not repress their feelings. In this, however, they violated the express command of the Saviour; but he was not responsible for that.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

There are four lessons in this passage which deserve close attention. Let us mark them each in succession. Let us mark in the first place, that strong faith in Christ may sometimes be found where it might least have been expected. Who would have thought that two blind men would have called our Lord the “Son of David?”They could not, of course, have seen the miracles that he did: they could only know him by common report. But the eyes of their understanding were enlightened, if their bodily eyes were dark.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οἱ	hoi	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	But	G1161 →
ἐξελθόντες	exelthontes	having gone out	G1831 →
διεφήμισαν	diephēmisan	they make known	G1310 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ὅλῃ	holē	all	G3650 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
γῇ	gēa	land	G1093 →
ἐκείνῃ.¶	ekeinē	that.	G1565 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Mark 7:36
Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more He ordered them, the more widely they proclaimed it.
leads to
- Matthew 8:4
  Then Jesus instructed him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, as a testimony to them.”
- Mark 5:43
  Then Jesus gave strict orders that no one should know about this, and He told them to give her something to eat.
- Mark 1:44–45
  “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
- Mark 3:12
  But He warned them sternly not to make Him known.
- Mark 8:26
  Jesus sent him home and said, “Do not go back into the village.”
Through
Matthew 9:26
And the news about this spread throughout that region.
leads to
- Matthew 4:24
  News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them.
- Mark 1:45
  But the man went out and openly began to proclaim and spread the news. Consequently, Jesus could no longer enter a town in plain view, but He stayed out in solitary places. Yet people…
- Matthew 14:1–2
  At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus