Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Luke 8

^{1 !} Christ with his Apostles go from towne to towne and preache.

^{3 !} The women minister vnto them of their goods.

^{3 a} Whereby they acknowledged the benefite which they had receiued of him, & also shewed their perseuerance, which proued their knowledge to be of God.

^{3 /} Or, to them.

^{5 !} He sheweth the parable of the sede.

^{8 b} That is, to vnderstand, & beleue these things.

^{10 /} Which worde is here taken for an obscure or darke saying.

^{13 d} That is, acknowledge & consent to the worde and also reuerence it.

^{14 e} When they returne home to their affaires.

^{16 f} Christ warneth his to do good with their light which they haue receiude, and to set it forthe before all mens faces.

^{16 /} Or, bed.

^{18 g} Bothe to him self, and to others.

^{20 /} Or, kinfolkes.

^{21 h} The spiritual kinred is to be preferred to the carnal & natural for asmuche as thereby of many we are made one, confessing together one God, one faith, & one baptisme, louing God aboue all thing, & our neighbour as our selues.

^{21 !} He telleth who is his mother and his brother.

^{23 i} The worde signifieth a depe or sounde stepe.

^{24 !} He stilleth the raging of the lake.

^{27 !} He deliuereth the possessed.

^{28 k} Satan is tormented where Christ is present.

^{29 l} The worde signifieth to be inforced with violence, as an horse when he is spurred.

^{29 /} Or, many a day agone.

^{30 m} A Legion, as writeth Vegetius, conteined 6000 fotemen, & 732 horsemen: but here it is taken for an vncertteine and infinite nomber.

^{31 n} That is, so to depart that they colde do no harme: and this worde {Chap. 16,25} is called hel, where the deuils are chained in the obscuritie of darkenes, {2 Pet. 2, 4}

^{33 !} The deuils enter into the heard of swine.

^{39 o} Christ knewe that he shulde better serue him being absent then with him.

^{39 p} This was his owne citie called Gadaris, which was in the counetrey of Decapolis, & therefore Luke dissenteth not from Marke who writteth that he preached in Decapolis.

^{41 q} Of the Congregation of the Jewes.

^{41 !} He healeth the sicke woman, and Jairus daughter.

^{44 r} Being assured of the vertue and power of Jesus Christ and not attributing any vertue to the garment.

^{48 s} Christ doeth not impute vnto vs the weakenes of our faithe, but doeth accept it, as thogh it were perfite.

^{50 t} Meaning the ruler of the Synagogue.

^{52 u} Althogh she was verely dead: yet to Christ it was more easie to restore her to life, then it is for one man to wake another out of his slepe.

^{54 x} He meaneth those which he founde in the house.