The Pulpit Commentary on Mark 3:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

As many as had plagues—the Greek word is μάστιγας; literally, scourges, painful disorders—pressed upon him ( ὥστε ἐπιπίπτειν αὐτῷ); literally, fell upon him, clung to him, hoping that the very contact with him might heal them.

This expression, "scourges," reminds us that diseases are a punishment on account of our sins.

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