Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 10:8

8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils, freely ye have received, freely give.

In these Words he gives them Power, 1. To Preach the Gospel. 2. To confirm the Doctrine they preached to be of God, by Miraculous Operations. Healing the sick, cleansing Lepers, casting out Devils He bids them go Preach [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Cry like Heralds, something like Isaiah's Commission, Isaiah 58.1. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy Voice, lift up thy Voice like a Trumpet. He teacheth them what should be the Sum of their Sermons. The Kingdom of God is at Hand, the same thing which Iohn Baptist preached, Chap. 3. v. 2. which Christ Preached, Mark 1.15. and which he directed the 70 to Preach, Luke 10.9. not that they were to use no other Words, but that all the Words they used, were to have this Tendency, To declare that the time was now come, when God had fulfilled his promise of the Messiah, who was setting up his Kingdom in the World, and to whose Laws they were to be obedient. This Doctrine they were to confirm by Miracles. Which he gives them a charge, they should work freely without receiving any reward for them, that the Miracles being used to their private Profit, might not lose their end, which was the Confirmation of their Doctrine.

Marginal references: Acts 3.[illegible: 2 letters] 20.