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Matthew 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It continues the narrative about Jesus' ministry in Galilee as he ministers to the public, working miracles, and going through all the cities and towns of the area, preaching the gospel, and healing every disease. [ 1 ]
Christ exorcising a mute by Gustav Doré, 1865.. Jesus exorcising a mute is the last of a series of miracles of Jesus recorded in chapter 9 of the Gospel of Matthew. [1] It appears in Matthew 9:32–34, immediately following the account of Christ healing two blind men (Matthew 9:27–31).
Tradition holds that this custom house (τελώνιον) was located in Capernaum. "Named Matthew:" Lapide notes that Matthew names himself, "both out of humility, that he might confess to the whole world that he had been a publican and a sinner," and also perhaps from gratitude, so he might make it widely known the exceeding grace of
The black mustard plant. The plant referred to here (Greek σίναπι , sinapi ) is generally considered to be black mustard , a large annual plant up to 9 feet (2.7 m) tall, [ 4 ] but growing from a proverbially small seed [ 4 ] (this smallness is also used to refer to faith in Matthew 17:20 and Luke 17:6).
Augustine: "That Matthew here speaks of his own city, and Mark calls it Capharnaum, would be more difficult to be reconciled if Matthew had expressed it Nazareth. But as it is, all Galilee might be called Christ’s city, because Nazareth was in Galilee; just as all the Roman empire, divided into many states, was still called the Roman city.
Jerome: " Whether or no his sins were forgiven He alone could know who forgave; but whether he could rise and walk, not only himself but they that looked on could judge of; but the power that heals, whether soul or body, is the same.
Planting doubt is frankly Donald Trump’s “one neat trick” as a politician. Sometimes he does it through surrogates, such as by seeding smears about enemies in tabloids, and sometimes he does ...
Alvin Carl Plantinga [a] (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic.