Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
Christ's power overflows in cures without stint or measure; He sits not on a throne of judgment but on a mountain where all may reach Him freely. He settles Himself to this work as one waiting to be gracious, expecting patients like Abraham at his tent-door, ready to help any soul that comes.
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Commenting on Matthew 15:29-39
After dismissing the crowd with prayer and exhortation to thankfulness and godly behavior, Christ took ship across the sea of Galilee to Magdala, near Tiberias, a place noted in the Talmud for its Rabbins. Mark calls it Dalmanutha, which lay within Magdala's coasts, distinct from the Jerusalem Magdala from which Mary Magdalene drew her name.
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