Matthew 8:16

When the evening came, they brought unto him many that were possessed with demons: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
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Cyril of Alexandria

AD 444
Why didn’t anyone bring them by day? Maybe it was out of respect for the scribes and Pharisees, or like Nicodemus, from embarrassment at their infirmities. Maybe it was because the sick people had no one to carry them to Jesus.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
Do you see the multitude, by this time growing in faith? For not even when the time pressed could they endure to depart, nor did they account it unseasonable to bring their sick to Him at eventide.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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