Luke 4:1-13
Christ's fasting and temptation in the desert. Matthew 4:1-11.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's fasting and temptation in the desert. Matthew 4:1-11.... [ Continue Reading ]
Temptations try human character. Though God often brings men into situations where temptations to sin are strong, he also gives them the means of resisting and overcoming them; and if they do overcome them, they will both honor him and benefit themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT; under his powerful supports, and amid the displays of his influence.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO READ; portions of the Old Testament were read in the synagogues each Sabbath. Followers of Christ, by imitating his example in habitually attending the public worship of God on the Sabbath, will find his promises to believers fulfilled in themselves; and that while worshipping in the way of his a... [ Continue Reading ]
DELIVERED UNTO HIM; by the minister or person who had the care of the sacred records. THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS WRITTEN; Isaiah 61:1-3.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Messiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
GRACIOUS WORDS; words of kindness and compassion which he uttered as he explained to them the spiritual meaning of the prophecy, and the salvation which he, as the Messiah, would grant to his people.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAL THYSELF; this was a proverb, the meaning of which here was, What you are said to have done among strangers, do here among your acquaintance.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO PROPHET IS ACCEPTED; those who have known him when a boy especially if in circumstances beneath their own, are less likely than strangers to receive and honor him.... [ Continue Reading ]
I TELL YOU; he told them, in illustration of what he had said and of the propriety of his conduct, of two cases recorded in their scriptures where miracles were wroght by the prophet Elijah and Elisha, not upon their fellow-countrymen, but upon foreigners: one, that of the widow of Sarepta, a gentil... [ Continue Reading ]
ELISEUS; this is the Greek manner of spelling the Hebrew word Elisha, as Elias is that of Elijah.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEARD THESE THINGS; the things he had spoken in proof of the truth of what he had said, and in justification of his having wrought more miracles at Capernaum than at Nazareth. The most eminent Old Testament prophets, by the direction of God, had gone not only from their own town, but from their coun... [ Continue Reading ]
THRUST HIM OUT; by force and violence. DOWN HEADLONG; to destroy him.... [ Continue Reading ]
The devil cast out-Peter's wife's mother and others healed. Mark 1:21-39... [ Continue Reading ]