Luke 8:43 “Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any,”    This woman had exhausted all human help. Evidently she was a person of some financial substance because doctors were not cheap. It is not completely clear…

Luke 8:42 “for he had an only daughter about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as He went, the multitudes thronged Him.”    Luke gives us all the details we need to understand what goes on in the narrative. He is known for his thorough treatment of subjects, and it is little…

Luke 8:41 “And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. And he fell down at Jesus’ feet and begged Him to come to his house,”    I’ve always thought it was nice of Jesus too meet this man’s faith where it was. Jesus could easily have healed/raised…

Luke 8:40 “So it was, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed Him, for they were all waiting for Him.”    At this point in the ministry of Christ He still had quite a large following. This serves as a stark contrast to the folks on the other side of the lake who had just…

Luke 8:39 “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you.” And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.”    Yes, that is right. Jesus sent this man home. He didn’t call him to go to some foreign…

Luke 8:38 “Now the man from whom the demons had departed begged Him that he might be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,”    This is one of my favorite little tidbits in the gospels. The previous verse had already said that Jesus got in the boat and returned. But, now we get…

Luke 8:37 “Then the whole multitude of the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. And He got into the boat and returned.”    This isn’t the only time in the ministry of Christ that He experienced such wholesale rejection. The fact is that…

Luke 8:36 “They also who had seen it told them by what means he who had been demon-possessed was healed.”    The event had a profound effect on the eyewitnesses. They would never forget what they had seen. Though superstition was strong, the experience they had on this day would forever stick out in their…

Luke 8:35 “Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.”    Here we have a contrast that really shows the state this world is…

Luke 8:34 “When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.” This verse is simply reporting the result of the pigs being drowned. Of course the guys tending these pigs were quite upset. This was their livelihood. But more than that, they were…