21 And when he was gone forth from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.

22 And they without tarrying, leaving the ship and their father, followed him.

23 So [a]Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in [b]their [c]Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the [d]kingdom, and healing [e]every sickness, and every [f]disease among the people.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:23 Christ assureth the hearts of the believers of his spiritual and saving virtue, by healing the diseases of the body.
  2. Matthew 4:23 Their, that is, the Galileans’.
  3. Matthew 4:23 Synagogues, the Jews’ Churches.
  4. Matthew 4:23 Of Messiah.
  5. Matthew 4:23 Diseases of all kinds, but not every one: that is, as we say, some of every one.
  6. Matthew 4:23 The word signifieth properly the weakness of the stomach: but here it is taken for those diseases which make men faint, and wear away, that have them.

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