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Luke 9:6

Western Saints

Bede

But they went out and went about the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere. What the Apostles preached, or how they healed, Mark explains more fully. He says, they preached that people should repent, and anointed many sick people with oil, and healed them. James also says: Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord, and if they have sinned, they will be forgiven (Mark 6). …

On the Gospel of Luke ↗

Bonaventure

And going out, they went about etc. After the authority committed and the propriety enjoined, the Evangelist here subjoins thirdly the utility conjoined. Now a fourfold utility is shown to have followed upon the preaching of the Apostles, namely the arousing of people to hearing, the arousing of hearers to conferring, the arousing of those conferring to marveling, the arousing of those marveling to beholding. …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 9 ↗