Matthew 9 Footnotes

9:13 All three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) place the dinner at Matthew’s house immediately after the call of Matthew. But there is probably a significant time lapse between the two events, and they were placed together because they dealt with the same character. Mark and Luke placed these events and the healing of the paralytic before the exorcism at Gadara, while Matthew placed them after that event. All three Gospel writers placed the raising of Jairus’s daughter after Gadara. It is likely that a combination of literary and chronological concerns caused the writers to order the events as they did.