But the news about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses.
Here is, I. The cleansing of a leper, Luk 5:12-14. This narrative we had both in Matthew and Mark. It is here said to have been in a certain city (Luk 5:12); it was in Capernaum, but the evangelist would not name it, perhaps because it was a reflection upon the government of the city that a leper was suffered to be in it.
Commenting on Luke 5:12-16
But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him,.... For the more he charged the man to keep silence, the more he blazed it abroad, being elated with the cure he received, and filled with gratitude to his benefactor; Mar 1:45.
Verse 15. No entry from BARNES for this verse. (m) "and great multitudes"