Now when the sun was setting
And so the sabbath was over; (See Gill on Matthew
8:16). all they that had any sick, with divers
diseases, brought them unto
him;
that is, as many of the inhabitants of Capernaum as had sick
persons in their houses, let their diseases be what they would,
brought them to Christ in Simon's house; which, sabbath being
over, they might do consistent with their laws, and the
traditions of the elders, and without any just offence to the
Scribes and Pharisees, who were tenacious of them; and they were
encouraged to do so, partly through the dispossessing the unclean
spirit in their synagogue that day, which many of them had been
witnesses of; and partly through the cure of Peter's wife's
mother, which they had heard of: and he laid his hands on
every one of them, and healed them;
without the use of medicine, by the mere imposition of his hands;
which was accompanied with such power and virtue from him, as to
remove, at once, every disease; nor did he refuse any person, how
unworthy soever they might be in themselves, and how obstinate
their disease might be.