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Mat 4:23. Καὶ περιῆγεν, κ.τ.λ., And Jesus went about, etc.) Thus, also, clearly in ch. Mat 9:35.[161]-κηρύσσων, preaching) His teaching in the synagogues was public, but His preaching more public still.-See ch. Mat 10:27, and Mat 11:1; comp. also Luk 8:39 : Joh 3:2; Joh 3:4.-τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, the Gospel) The chief teaching of Christ was the Gospel: the other things which He taught concerned only the removing impediments [to its saving reception].-τῆς βασιλείας, of the kingdom) sc. of God. In Holy Scripture God is the perpetual object of contemplation.-πᾶσαν, every) No one sick or dead, whom Jesus met, remained in sickness or death.-νόσον disease) νόσος; signifies a disease of the whole body: μαλακία, an infirmity of any particular part, attended with pain: βἀσανος (Mat 4:24), a torture, or malady accompanied by excruciating pain:μάστιξ (Luk 7:21), a scourge.-ἐν τῷ λαῷ, among the people) Among the people of Israel: and it was among the people, [i.e., in public,] that, as the sick were promiscuously brought to Him, even those were healed whose disease was a matter of public notoriety; see Joh 9:8, and Act 3:10. But in the case of miracles of later times, men, or dumb images, to whom they are pretended to have happened, are thrust forth from some obscure nook or other by collusion.
[161] See also Mar 6:6; Act 10:38, etc. It was by this system that He, in so short a mininstry, benefited a vast multitude of men by His teaching and miracles; thereby He the more trained His disciples; and, moreover, produced this effect, that men, so far from being weary of Him, even from time to time conceived the stronger yearning desire after Him.-Harm., p. 235, 236.