Luke 9:1

Commissioning the Twelve

1 Summoning the Twelve, He gave them power and authority over all the demons, and [power] to heal^[a] diseases.

Luke 9:1 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 9:1

Then he called his twelve disciples together
The Persic version reads, "all his twelve disciples", the other nine, besides the three that were with him, when he raised Jairus's daughter, recorded in the foregoing chapter; the Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read, "the twelve apostles", for so Christ had named his disciples; (See Gill on Matthew 6:13). The Syriac version only reads, "his own twelve"; and this is agreeably to Luke's way of speaking; see ( Luke 8:1 ) ( 9:12 ) .

And gave them power and authority over all devils;
that is, all kinds of devils, particularly to cast them out of the bodies of men, possessed by them:

and to cure diseases;
of all sorts.

Luke 9:1 In-Context

1 Summoning the Twelve, He gave them power and authority over all the demons, and [power] to heal diseases.

2 Then He sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

3 "Take nothing for the road," He told them, "no walking stick, no traveling bag, no bread, no money; and don't take an extra shirt.

4 Whatever house you enter, stay there and leave from there.

5 If they do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

Footnotes

• [a]. In this passage, different Gk words are translated as heal. In Eng, "to heal" or "to cure" are synonyms with little distinction in meaning. Technically, we do not heal or cure diseases. People are healed or cured from diseases.