17 And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, 18 who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. 19 And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.
Jesus came down from being up in the mountain to pray, and people from all around came to Him. Luke does not say where it was exactly; it did not matter, because wherever Jesus went people came to Him. They came, as we have seen over and over again, to hear and be healed. Things really are building here. Before we saw that Jesus was able to heal, then that He was almost impelled to heal - he could not hold back from doing so. Now healing just kind of flows out from Him; it goes wherever He goes. We can see why people wanted to be with Him so badly. We need to want to be with Him that much, and to want to hear what He has to say even more, because as we will see, Jesus has a lot we need to hear.
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