Luk 8:40-42 | Clarke | STEP | Verse 40 Gladly received him - This is the proper import of the word απεδεξατο; therefore our translators needed not to have put gladly in italics, as though it were not expressed in the text. Raphelius gives several proofs of this in loc.

Luke 8:40-42

Verse 40

Gladly received him - This is the proper import of the word απεδεξατο; therefore our translators needed not to have put gladly in italics, as though it were not expressed in the text. Raphelius gives several proofs of this in loc. Verse 41

A man named Jairus - See these two miracles - the raising of Jairus's daughter, and the cure of the afflicted woman - considered and explained at large, on Mat 9:18-26 (note), and Mark 5:22-43 (note). Verse 42

The people thronged him - Συνεπνιγον αυτον - almost suffocated him - so great was the throng about him.