Matthew 4:23

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues. These were houses of local worship. It cannot be proved that they existed before the Babylonian captivity; but as they began to be erected soon after it, probably the idea was suggested by the religious inconveniences to which the captives had been subjected. In our Lord's time, the rule was to have one wherever ten learned men, or professed students of the law, resided; and they extended to Syria, Asia Minor, Greece and most places of the dispersion. The larger towns had several, and in Jerusalem the number approached 500. In point of officers and mode of worship, the Christian congregations were modelled after the synagogue.

And preaching the gospel - `proclaiming the glad tidings'

Of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness, [ pasan (G3956) noson (G3554)] - 'every disease' --

And all manner, of disease, [ pasan (G3956) malakian (G3119)] - 'every complaint.' The word means any incipient malady causing 'softness.'

Ahl Among the people.