<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4:24&nbsp;</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Then his fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them</i></p>
<p><i> -</i>&nbsp; The repetition of the word &ldquo;and...&rdquo; gives the impression that every kind of illness &ndash; physical and mental, understood and not understood &ndash; was healed by the Lord Jesus. &ldquo;Lunatic&rdquo; translates the Greek&nbsp;<i>sel&#275;niazomai&nbsp;</i>&ndash; &ldquo;to be moon struck&rdquo;, derived from the noun&nbsp;<i>sel&#275;n&#275;</i>, the moon. It&rsquo;s not true that some mental illnesses come from being moon&ndash;struck. But the idea is used, without correction &ndash; just as the idea of &lsquo;demon possession&rsquo; is in the preceding phrase. &ldquo;Brought&rdquo; translates a word which was used in the technical sense of bringing sacrifice- and the idea of converts as sacrifices is repeated in Rom. 15:16.</p>