This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”
Isaiah speaks of Christ's death and spiritual grace, yet Matthew applies the words to bodily healing, which seems at first a violent reading. But the Evangelist is not idle; he shows us the design behind those cures. Christ healed the blind to prove He is the light of the world, raised the dead to show He is resurrection and life. So too these healings point to His true work: sent by the Father to deliver us from all evils and miseries.
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Peter had a wife and a house at Capernaum, proving Christ honors the marriage state and blesses those who abandon their quarters to be near Him. Rome's ban on clerical marriage contradicts the very apostle from whom it claims descent.
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Commenting on Matthew 8:14-17
Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him,.... Who got together, partly out of novelty to see his person, of whom they had heard so much; and partly to see the miracles he wrought: some came to have their bodily diseases healed; few, if any, to hear the Gospel preached by him, and for the good of their immortal souls: the most part came with...