[2] This chapter mentions the women who supported Jesus and records some of the great miracles he performed, as well as several parables told by him.

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: Now it came to pass, afterward, that He went through every city and village, preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God.

And the twelve were with Him, and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities—Mary called Magdalene, out of whom had come seven demons, and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who provided for Him from their substance.Following a "fairly static period",[4] Jesus continues his itinerant ministry within "every city and village" within Galilee.

[6][a] According to Richard Bauckham, this surely implies that Luke receives his special information from "one (most likely Joanna) or more than one of" the women.

[6] Eric Franklin notes that the "seven demons" from which Mary had been liberated reflected "the severe nature of her illness", not an earlier life of immorality.

Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion, but the disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?

As Genesis 1:2 states how the Spirit of God tamed the waters at creation, Moses with the command over the Red Sea (Exodus 14; cf.

Isaiah 51:9 of God's victory over the sea at the Exodus) and Elijah with command over the Jordan River (2 Kings 2:8), thus Jesus, as 'God's final act of redemption', here revealed his total power over "the deep".

The term 'the Most High God' used to call Jesus's father by the tormented man, was also used by the spirit-possessed slave girl at Philippi who was later healed by Paul (Acts 16:17).

The chapter ends with Jesus' commands that the girl should be fed and that Jairus and his wife should tell no-one what had happened.

Luke's and Matthew's accounts specify that the bleeding woman touched the "fringe" of his cloak, using a Greek word kraspedon which also appears in Mark 6.