Matthew 8

Matthew 8
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Matthew 7:27-8:28 on Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360).
Book	Gospel of Matthew
Bible part	New Testament
Order in the Bible part	1
Category	Gospel

Matthew 8 is the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and continues the narrative about Jesus' ministry in Galilee previously described in Matthew 4:23-25. It follows on from the Sermon on the Mount, noting in its opening verse that Jesus had come down from the mountain where he had been teaching. There is a renewed focus in this chapter on Jesus' ministry of healing.

This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to parallel texts in the other canonical gospels):

Anglican bishop Charles Ellicott commented that the events reported "are common to St. Mark and St. Luke, but are not narrated ... in the same order".Free Church minister William Robertson Nicoll suggested that "this collection is not arranged in chronological order. The connection is topical, not temporal." In his opinion these stories "are an integral part of the self-revelation of Jesus by word and deed; they are demonstrations not merely of His power, but above all, of His spirit".