We have in this chapter remarkable instances of the power and pity of the Lord Jesus, sufficient to convince us that he is both able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him, and as willing as he is able. His power and pity appear here in the good offices he did, I.

The first words of this chapter oblige us to look back to the close of that which precedes it, where we find the Gadarenes so resenting the loss of their swine, that they were disgusted with Christ’s company, and besought him to depart out of their coasts.

In these verses we have an account of the grace and favour of Christ to poor publicans, particularly to Matthew. What he did to the bodies of people was to make way for a kind design upon their souls. Now observe here, I. The call of Matthew, the penman of this gospel.

The objections which were made against Christ and his disciples gave occasion to some of the most profitable of his discourses; thus are the interests of truth often served, even by the opposition it meets with from gainsayers, and thus the wisdom of Christ brings good out of evil.

We have here two passages of history put together; that of the raising of Jairus’s daughter to life, and that of the curing of the woman that had the bloody issue, as he was going to Jairus’s house, which is introduced in a parenthesis, in the midst of the other; for Christ’s miracles were thick…

In these verses we have an account of two more miracles wrought together by our Saviour. I. The giving of sight to two blind men, Matt. 9:27–31. Christ is the Fountain of light as well as life; and as, by raising the dead, he showed himself to be the same that at first breathed into man the breath…

Here is, I. A conclusion of the foregoing account of Christ’s preaching and miracles ; He went about all the cities teaching and healing. This is the same we had before, Matt. 4:23. There it ushers in the more particular record of Christ’s preaching (Matt. 5:1—7:29) and of his cures (Matt.