Mark 5:24-34 And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.… It pleases God to lay long and tedious afflictions on some of His servants in this life. 1. To manifest His great power, strengthening them to bear such long afflictions. 2. To magnify His mercy in delivering them at length out of them. 3. That He may make thorough proof and trial of their faith, patience, and other graces of His Spirit in them. 4. To wean them from this world, and to stir up in them a longing for heaven. 5. To make them more earnest in prayer to Him for deliverance. It is therefore no evidence of God's wrath, nor any sufficient reason to prove such an one to be out of His favour, whom He so holds for a long time under the cross. Be well content, then, to bear afflictions, though of long continuance; submitting in this matter to the will of God, who knows it to be good and profitable for some to be kept long under discipline. (G. Petter.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.WEB: He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. |
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