And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
Ver. 14. And when they were come to the multitude] That was the next day after the transfiguration,Luke 9:37, and in that nick of time, when the disciples could neither cure the lunatic nor answer their adversaries, Mark 9:14, who had now sport enough to see them brought into the briers, and therefore jeered them before the people to some purpose. Most opportunely therefore, if ever, comes Christ to their aid, as it were out of an engine, and both cures the child and confounds the Pharisees. His recent honour hindered him not from doing his office: his incomparable felicity made him not forget poor Joseph's misery. He knew he was much wished and waited for, and therefore makes haste from the mount to the multitude.
Kneeling down to him] Some understand the word of such a humble gesture of catching the party petitioned by the knees or feet, as the Shunammite used to the prophet, the Shulamite to her spouse, and Thetis to Jupiter, when she sued to him in her sons' behalf. a
a Γουνουμαι σε εγωγε, Iliad. a.