Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 4:21
To — day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears — By what you hear me speak.
To — day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears — By what you hear me speak.
THIS SCRIPTURE - This writing, or this part of the Scriptures. FULFILLED - It is coming to pass; the thing originally intended by it is about to be accomplished. IN YOUR EARS - In your “hearing;” or...
III. THE MINISTRY IN GALILEE -- CHAPTER 4:14-9:50 CHAPTER 4:14-44 _ 1. In the Synagogue of Nazareth (Luke 4:14)_ 2. Unbelief and Rejection of Christ. (Luke 4:22) 3. A Demon Cast Out in Capernaum ...
JESUS IN NAZARETH (Mark 1:14 f.*, Matthew 4:12 *, Mark 6:1 *, Matthew 13:53 *). Lk. brings Jesus to Galilee, but, anxious to make the mission begin in His
THE BATTLE WITH TEMPTATION (Luke 4:1-13)...
So Jesus came to Nazareth where he had been brought up; and, as was his habit, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read the lesson. The roll of the prophet Isaiah was giv...
TO SAY UNTO THEM, &c.. to say to them _that_ (Greek. _hoti)_ This day, &c. Note the force of "that", and see note on Luke 19:9; Mark 14:30 (where _hoti is_ used), and contrast Luke 22:34, and...
_he began to say unto them_ i. e. these were the first words of the discourse. It began with the announcement that He was the Messiah in whom the words of the prophet found their fulfilment....
Jesus returns to Nazareth and preaches there 14. _And Jesus returned_ St Luke here omits that series of occurrences which is mainly preserved for us by the Apostle who recorded the Judaean ministry St...
ἬΡΞΑΤΟ ΔῈ ΛΈΓΕΙΝ ΠΡῸΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΎΣ. i.e. these were the first words of the discourse. It began with the announcement that He was the Messiah in whom the words of the prophet found their fulfilment....
JESUS RETURNS TO NAZARETH AND PREACHES THERE...
Ver 14. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all....
ΉΡΞΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G757) начинать, с _inf._ ΠΕΠΛΉΡΩΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) наполнять, выподнять. _Perf._ подчеркивает состояние или условие (VANT, 295-96) и и...
DISCOURSE: 1485 OUR LORD’S FIRST SERMON AT NAZARETH Luke 4:21. _And he began to say unto them, This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the graciou...
AND SAT DOWN.— In agreement with the custom which we have spoken of at the end of the note on Luke 4:16 our Lord _sat down_ to preach, after he had read the passage in the prophet which he made the su...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Visitation of the Son of Man in Time (Luke 4:14-30) 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and a report concerning him went out through all the s...
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. AND HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO THEM - language implying that only the substance, or even the general drift, of His addre...
8 "It is written" is the sword of the spirit, that destroys the insinuations of the Slanderer. And if he counters with a passage (for error is best supported by an appeal to Holy Writ), the only defen...
THE TEMPTATION. NAZARETH. CAPERNAUM 1-13. The Temptation (Matthew 4:1; Mark 1:12). See on Mt....
VISIT TO NAZARETH. See Matthew 13:53; Mark 6:1. It must remain doubtful whether this visit to Nazareth, which Lk places at the beginning of the Galilean ministry, is identical with that placed conside...
THIS DAY IS THIS SCRIPTURE, etc.] “With the emphatic self-assertion of this sermon, cp. the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 4 JESUS AND THE DEVIL 4:1-13 V1-2 Jesus returned from the river Jordan. He was full of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit led him into the desert for 4...
THIS DAY IS THIS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED. — It is obvious that we have here only the opening, words of the sermon preached on the text from Isaiah. There must have been more than this, remembered too vagu...
CHAPTER 8 THE GOSPEL OF THE JUBILEE. IMMEDIATELY after the Temptation Jesus returned "in the power of the Spirit," and with all the added strength of His recent victories, to Galilee. Into what parts...
κατὰ τὸ εἰωθὸς : the reference most probably is, not to the custom of Jesus as a boy during His private life, but to what He had been doing since He began His ministry. He used the synagogue as one of...
_Jesus in Nazareth_ (Matthew 13:53-58; Mark 6:1-6 a). Though Lk. uses an editorial discretion in the _placing_ of this beautiful story, there need be no suspicion as to the historicity of its main fea...
ἤρξατο : we may take what follows either as the gist of the discourse, the theme (De Wette, Godet, Hahn), or as the very words of the opening sentence (Grotius, Bengel, Meyer, Farrar). Such a direct a...
“HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT” Luke 4:14-30 A wide gap occurs here, embracing the important transactions of John 1:29-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. What a flutter in Mary's heart when she s...
As man Jesus was tempted. All the words with which He rebutted the attacks of Satan were quotations from the divine law for the government of human life. The exhaustive nature of the temptation is rev...
By this Christ wished to shew that he was the Messias foretold by the prophet Isaias, whom they so anxiously expected: he declares himself to be the person pointed out by the prophet. There seems also...
JESUS REJECTED AT NAZARETH, MIGRATES TO CAPERNAUM Luke 4:16-31; Matthew 4:13-16. “He came into Nazareth, where he was brought up, and according to the custom to Him on the Sabbath-day, He came into th...
1. _Visit to Nazareth: Luke 4:14-30_. This portion opens with a general glance at the commencement of the active labours of Jesus in Galilee: Luke 14:14-15. Then, resting on this foundation, but separ...
FIRST CYCLE: VISITS TO NAZARETH AND TO CAPERNAUM, LUKE 4:14-44. The following narratives are grouped around two names _ Nazareth_ (Luke 4:14-30) and _Capernaum_ (Luke 4:31-44)....
THIRD PART: THE MINISTRY OF JESUS IN GALILEE, LUKE 4:14 TO LUKE 9:50. The three Synoptics all connect the narrative of the Galilaean ministry with the account of the temptation. But the narrations of...
2 _d. Luke 4:16-30_. Jesus did not begin by preaching at Nazareth. In His view, no doubt, the inhabitants of this city stood in much the same relation to the people of the rest of Galilee as the inhab...
_The Preaching._ The description of the assembly, Luke 4:20, is so dramatic, that it appears to have come from an eye-witness. The sense of ἤρξατο, He began (Luke 4:21), is not that these were the _f...
(14) And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. (15) And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. (1...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_PROPHECY FULFILLED_ ‘This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.’ Luke 4:21 Jesus had returned to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. It was now some months since He had left His home t...
21._Today is fulfilled _Christ did not merely affirm in a few words, but proved by a reference to facts, that the time was now come, when it was the will of God to restore his ruined church. The objec...
The unknown Son of God on earth, Jesus, is led (chapter 4) into the wilderness by the Holy Ghost, with whom He had been sealed, to undergo the temptation of the enemy, beneath which Adam fell. But Jes...
AND HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO THEM,.... To preach from those words; the explanation of which he gave, though not here recorded, and applied them to himself, to whom they belonged, saying: THIS DAY IS THIS...
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. Ver. 21. _This day is this scripture, &c._] This the sum of his sermon, as were also the prophecies we read, the head...
_And he closed the book, and gave it again to the minister_ Τω υπηρετη, _to the servant_, who had brought it to him. “From the manner in which we apply the word _minister_, in speaking of our churches...
THIS SCRIPTURE; the scripture which he had just read, and which he said was that day fulfilled, was written more than seven hundred years before, and strikingly described his character and work as the...
The sermon and its effect:...
AND HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO THEM, THIS DAY IS THIS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS....
TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL (vs.1-13) The Father having pronounced His delight in His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus was led by the Spirit of God into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. In Mark 1:12 it...
14-30 Christ taught in their synagogues, their places of public worship, where they met to read, expound, and apply the word, to pray and praise. All the gifts and graces of the Spirit were upon him...
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‘And he began to say to them, “Today has this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.” ' There would have been a great stirring at His next words for He declared, “Today has this Scripture been fulfill...
JESUS REVEALS HIMSELF AS THE SPIRIT ANOINTED PROPHET OF ISAIAH (4:16-21). In this next passage Jesus reveals that the fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah concerning the coming anointed Prophet is to...
Luke 4:21. AND HE BEGAN TO SAY. This was both the actual beginning of His discourse, and its theme and substance. That He explained the passage at some length seems probable from the next verse. TODA...
CHRONOLOGY. A number of events occurred in Judea before the ministry in Galilee spoken of in Luke 4:14-15, according to Andrews the whole of the first year. (See notes on Matthew 4:12; comp. John 1:35...
AND HE BEGAN TO SAY (ηρξατο δε λεγειν). Aorist ingressive active indicative and present infinitive. He began speaking. The moment of hushed expectancy was passed. These may or may not be the first...
Luke 4:19 Jesus read the prophets' testimony regarding God's goodness, and then closed the book, hiding the severity under the parchment folds. He preached on one half of a clause; did He intend to co...
We will read three short passages of Scripture, all relating to Christ's service. The first concerns the ministry of the Lord Jesus himself. Luke 4:16. And he came to Nazareth, where lie had been, br...
Luke 4:14. _And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee:_ Ah, dear brethren, if our Lord Jesus needed «the power of the Spirit», how much more do you and I need it! We have no power of...
We will read, from the Revised Version, two passages which record attempts made to kill our Lord before his time had come. You will see, from the sermon, why we read them. Luke 4:16. And he came to N...
CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth. Casting of demons out of man at Capernaum. Healing of Peter's wife's mother and others. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Satan, Josep...
Luke 4:2. _Being tempted forty days he afterward hungered._ During this space he lived like Moses on the mount, conversing with the Father in all the glories of his kingdom. His humanity was renovated...
THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE HAS COME TRUE TODAY. By his reading of it, and by his mission. We are not told all he taught, but the people were well impressed with him. ISN'T HE THE SON OF JOSEPH? A "sour...
_The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor_ THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD Every Christian would wish to know what were the first words spoken...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 4:16 The Ministry of Jesus in Galilee. Except for Luke 8:26, this next section of Luke takes place in Galilee....
CHAPTER 4 VER. 1. _And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan_, having been there baptized by John a little time before, and having _visibly_ received the Holy Spirit, whose fulness...
_And He began to say unto them, This day is this Scripture_ ("which has sounded," says Euthymius, and the Syriac version), _fulfilled in your ears._ This day is fulfilled in your hearing this prophecy...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 4:14. RETURNED.—_I.e._ from Judæa. GALILEE.—The main centre of our Lord’s ministry (cf. Acts 10:37; Luke 23:5). IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT.—Fresh strength gained from His victory...
EXPOSITION LUKE 4:1 THE TEMPTATION. The consecration of our Lord in his baptism was immediately followed by what is known as his temptation. It is, perhaps, the most mysterious and least understood...
And Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit returned from Jordan (Luke 4:1), Now He was at Jordan where He was baptized by John, and He returned from Jordan. and was led by the Spirit into the wildernes...
Acts 2:16; Acts 2:29; Acts 3:18; John 4:25; John 4:26;...
He began. Not necessarily denoting his first words, but indicating a solemn and weighty opening....
CHRIST, THE LOVER OF MEN Luke 4:14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The endeavor in this study will be to seek the heart of the Saviour, discovering His attitude toward different classes of men among whom He liv...