Luke 4:40-44

Other Healings (Mark 1:32 *, Matthew 8:16 f.*, Matthew 4:23 *). The medical interest of Lk. here appears strongly. He distinguishes ordinary ailments from cases of demoniacal possession. Luke 4:43 is an announcement made earlier by Mk. (Mark 1:15); Lk. has had to defer it through his treatment of the Nazareth episode.

Luke 4:43. I was sent is less original than Mk.'s came I forth (i.e. from Capernaum).

Luke 4:44. Galilee. The true reading is Judæ a (mg.), which is thus used in the wide sense of all Jewish territory (cf. Luke 6:17; Luke 7:17; Luke 23:5), and so includes Galilee, to which the context refers. Spitta argues keenly for the ordinary interpretation of the term and a Judæ an ministry such as we have in the Fourth Gospel (cf. Luke 5:17, where the two are distinguished).