Jesus

Healing Multitudes

Healing Multitudes is dated AD 28. It is told in Matthew 12:15–21. Jesus Christ is part of it.

Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them all,

Matthew 12:15 BSB

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning
AD 28
Traditional reckoning
AD 28

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Where is it in the Bible?

Who was there, and where?

Where: Galilee.

Which verses connect to Matthew 12:15?

The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).

  1. So Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea, accompanied by a large crowd from Galilee, Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, the region beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to Him when they heard what great things He was doing. …

  2. When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

  3. Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.

  4. John 7:14 votes

    After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.

  5. John 11:544 votes

    As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

  6. Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and He healed them. …

Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.