Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 8:1 - 8:1

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com

Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 8:1 - 8:1


(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

Soon afterwards (en tōi kathexēs). In Luk 7:11 we have en tōi hexēs. This word means one after the other, successively, but that gives no definite data as to the time, only that this incident in Luk 8:1-3 follows that in Luk 7:36-50. Both in Luke alone.

That (kai). One of Luke’s idioms with kai egeneto like Hebrew wav. Went about (diōdeuen). Imperfect active of diodeuō, to make one’s way through (dia, hodos), common in late Greek writers. In the N.T. here only and Act 17:1.

Through cities and villages (kata polin kai kōmēn). Distributive use of kata (up and down). The clause is amphibolous and goes equally well with diōdeuen or with kērussōn (heralding) kai euaggelizomenos (evangelizing, gospelizing). This is the second tour of Galilee, this time the Twelve with him.