Exegesis:
diērcheto de mallon ho logos peri autou ‘but the report about him spread all the more.’ de means, notwithstanding Jesus’ order to tell nobody. mallon ‘all the more,’ i.e. as contrasted with Jesus’ intentions, or, ‘now even more than ever.’ The latter is preferable.
kai sunērchonto ochloi polloi ‘and (as a result) great crowds gathered.’
sunerchomai (also 23.55) ‘to come together,’ ‘to gather.’
akouein kai therapeuesthai apo tōn astheneiōn autōn ‘to hear (him) and to be cured (by him) of their diseases,’ final infinitives after sunērchonto. For therapeuō cf. on 4.23. The agent of the curing is Jesus. The fact that polloi ochloi is the logical subject of therapeuesthai does not imply that only sick people gathered.
astheneia ‘sickness,’ ‘disease.’
Translation:
The report went abroad concerning him, cf. on 4.14.
Gathered, or, ‘gathered around him’; or simply, ‘came’ (Marathi), ‘came to him.’
To be healed of their infirmities often has to be adjusted, e.g. ‘to get their diseases cured’ (Marathi), ‘to have-him-cure their illnesses’ (Tae,’ using the verbal form mentioned on “be baptized” in 3.7), ‘asked him that those who were ill amongst them be healed’; or again, ‘those who were sick asked him to heal them,’ ‘the sick-ones gave themselves to be made well’ (Tzeltal). For infirmity see on “diseases” in 4.40.
Quoted with permission from Reiling, J. and Swellengrebel, J.L. A Handbook on the Gospel of Luke. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1971. For this and other handbooks for translators see here . Make sure to also consult the Handbook on the Gospel of Mark for parallel or similar verses.
