(17) And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; (18) And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. (19) And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
Here is a beautiful view of Jesus, and his College of Apostles, coming down from the mount where He had ordained them. Can we suppose the ordination service to have been less solemn than that of the Prophet Jeremiah? see chap. 1 throughout. True, Judas was among them; but this became no bar to the Lord's special sanctification of the rest; while Jesus well knew, when he called the traitor, that he was a devil, and consequently unsanctified. John 6:70-71. Solemn consideration!