Discovery BoxMatthew 3:5 
Context3:5 Then people from Jerusalem, 1 as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,
Matthew 4:23
Context4:23 Jesus 2 went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, 3 preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.
Matthew 14:35
Context14:35 When the people 4 there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him.
1 tn Grk “Then Jerusalem.”
map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
2 tn Grk “And he.”
3 sn Synagogues were places for Jewish prayer and worship, with recognized leadership (cf. Luke 8:41). Though the origin of the synagogue is not entirely clear, it seems to have arisen in the postexilic community during the intertestamental period. A town could establish a synagogue if there were at least ten men. In normative Judaism of the NT period, the OT scripture was read and discussed in the synagogue by the men who were present (see the Mishnah, m. Megillah 3-4; m. Berakhot 2).
4 tn Grk “men”; the word here (ἀνήρ, anhr) usually indicates males or husbands, but occasionally is used in a generic sense of people in general, as here (cf. BDAG 79 s.v. 1.a, 2).
