Matthew 19:2

2 And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

Matthew 19:2 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 19:2

And great multitudes followed him
The Persic version adds, "of the sick and diseased"; but all that followed him were not such, though some were: these came not only from Galilee, but from the adjacent parts, from the country beyond Jordan, and the coasts of Judea, where he had been formerly; and who resort to him again, as Mark observes; and whom, according to his usual manner, he taught and instructed in the knowledge of divine things, and confirmed his doctrines by miracles:

and he healed them there;
in the above mentioned places, even as many of them as were sick and diseased.

Matthew 19:2 In-Context

1 And it happened that when Jesus had finished these statements, he went away from Galilee and came into the region of Judea on the other side of the Jordan.

2 And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3 And Pharisees came up to him [in order to] test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause.

4 And he answered [and] said, "Have you not read that the one who created [them] from the beginning made them male and female

5 and said, 'On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?