Luke 8
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Chapter 8
| 8:2 | Mary Magdalene - Or Mary of Magdala, a town in Galilee: probably the person mentioned in the last chapter. |
| 8:4 | Matthew 13:1 ; Mr 4:1. |
| 8:15 | Who - keep it - Not like the highway side: And bring forth fruit - Not like the thorny ground: With perseverance - Not like the stony. |
| 8:16 | No man having lighted a candle - As if ho had said, And let your good fruit appear openly. Matthew 5:15 ; Mr 4:21; Lu 11:33. |
| 8:17 | For nothing is hid - Strive not to conceal it at all; for you can conceal nothing long. Matthew 10:26 ; Mr 4:22; Lu 12:2. |
| 8:18 | The word commonly translated seemeth, wherever it occurs, does not weaken, but greatly strengthens the sense. Matthew 13:12 ; Mr 4:25; Lu 19:26. |
| 8:19 | Matthew 12:46 ; Mr 3:31. |
| 8:22 | Matthew 8:23 ; Mr 4:35. |
| 8:26 | Matthew 8:28 ; Mr 5:1. |
| 8:29 | For many times it had caught him - Therefore our compassionate Lord made the more haste to cast him out. |
| 8:31 | The abyss - That is, the bottomless pit. |
| 8:32 | To enter into the swine - Not that they were any easier in the swine than out of them. Had it been so, they would not so soon have dislodged themselves, by destroying the herd. |
| 8:37 | Matthew 9:1 ; Mr 5:18. |
| 8:40 | Mark 5:21 . |
| 8:52 | She is not dead but sleepeth - Her soul is not separated finally from the body; and this short separation is rather to be called sleep than death. |