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Luk 5:17. Καθημένοι, sitting) as hearers that were treated with more especial honour than the rest.-νομοδιδάσκαλοι, doctors of the law) Scribes, Luk 5:21.-κώμης, village) The extremes, Jerusalem on the one hand, and the villages on the opposite, are specified: the towns which constitute the immediate mean between the capital city and the petty villages, are meant to be included.-ἦν) was present so as to heal. A similar expression occurs in the LXX., ἐσόμεθα τοῦ σῶσαί σε, we shall be present, or ready, for the purpose of saving thee, 2Sa 10:11; ἔσονται ὥστε ἐργάζεσθαι, they shall be present to perform, Num 8:11; γενέσθω ἡ χείρ σου τοῦ σῶσαί με, let Thy hand be present for the purpose of saving me, Psa 119:173.-αὐτοὺς, them) namely, those of whom Luk 5:15 speaks.