Luke 7:21
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At that very time Jesus cured many who had diseases, sicknesses and evil spirits, and gave sight to many who were blind.
Read Luke 7:21 Using Other Translations
And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.
In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight.
At that very time, Jesus cured many people of their diseases, illnesses, and evil spirits, and he restored sight to many who were blind.
What does Luke 7:21 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Luke 7:21
freely, as an act of grace and kindness, as the word signifies, without any merit, or motive, in them.
FOOTNOTES:
F9 Misn. Sabbat, c. 2. sect. 5. Vid Maimon. Hilchot Gerushin, c. 2. sect. 14.
And in that same hour
Or at that same time, for a precise hour is not intended: one
exemplar reads, "in that day", in which these men came to Christ,
he,
Jesus, as the Persic version expresses it,
cured many of their infirmities;
bodily weaknesses and disorders: and plagues; which were
inflicted on them as scourges and corrections for sin, very
severe diseases, as epilepsies, leprosies, palsies and of evil
spirits; or devils, which he dispossessed and commanded out of
the bodies of men; though sometimes evil spirits, with the Jews,
signify some kinds of bodily diseases: as when it is said
F9
``whoever puts out a lamp because he is afraid of Gentiles, or of thieves, or of (her xwr) , "an evil spirit", or because of a sick man that is asleep, he is free.''Upon which Maimonides observes,
``an evil spirit they call all kinds of diseases, which, in the Arabic language, go by the name of "melancholy"; for it is one kind of the diseases mentioned, which makes a sick man to fly, and separate himself from mankind, as if he was afraid of the light, or of coming into the company of men:''and unto many that were blind he gave sight;
freely, as an act of grace and kindness, as the word signifies, without any merit, or motive, in them.
F9 Misn. Sabbat, c. 2. sect. 5. Vid Maimon. Hilchot Gerushin, c. 2. sect. 14.
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