Matthew 4:24 NASB
The news about Him spread throughout all Syria;
and they brought to Him all who were ill,
those suffering with various diseases and pains,
demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics;
and He healed them.
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Syria was north of the Galilee, roughly the area of what is now Syria and Lebanon.
Selēniazomenous (lit. those who are lunar sick) were those who suffered from epilepsy, a disease thought in antiquity to be associated with the movements of the moon and therefore called the lunar sickness.
After a general designation for the sick (those who are tormented by all kinds of diseases and pains), three groups are mentioned by name: the possessed, epileptics and lame.
These were probably the worst cases of illness at the time, which were considered incurable.
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