Vs 14

McGee: Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, vol. 4, pg. 263 "...if our Lord needed the strengthening of the Holy Spirit after His testing, how much more do we need Him!"

Vs 15

Barnes' Notes on the New Testament pg. 196 renders glorified of all, "Praised by all."

Vs 16

McGee: Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, vol. 4, pg. 264 "I get a little weary of hearing some men say very piously that they can worship God just as easily on the golf course on Sunday as they can in church. What they say is true, but the question I always ask them is, 'when you take your golf bag out on the course on Sunday morning, do you go out to worship God or to play golf?' The fact of the matter is, they have no intention of worshiping God on the golf course. You go to church on Sunday morning to worship God, and you go out on the golf course to play golf."

Matthew Henry's Commentary, vol. V, pg. 623 "They had in their synagogues seven readers every sabbath, the first a priest, the second a Levite, and the other five Israelites of that synagogue."

Vs 17

Vincent: Word Studies in the New Testament, vol. I, pg. 290. Vincent writes about the Greek word anaptusso used here for opening the book as well as ptusso used in verse 20 for closing the book which appear only in these two verse in the New Testament, "The former word was used in medical language of the opening out of various parts of the body, and the latter of the rolling up of bandages. The use of these terms by Luke the physician is the more significant from the fact that elsewhere in the New Testament [other words are used for opening and closing a book]."

Vs 18

Barnes' Notes on the New Testament pg. 196 "The Pharisees and Saducees despised the poor. Ancient philosophers neglected them. But the gospel seeks to bless them; to give comfort where it is felt to be needed, and where it will be received with gratitude."

Brown: Jamison-Fausset-Brown, A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, vol. III, pg. 238 " 'THE SPIRIT of THE LORD is upon ME,' have been noticed since the days of the Church Fathers, as an illustrious example of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost being exhibited as in distinct yet harmonious action in the scheme of salvation." Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy Bible, vol. 3, pg. 206. Concerning the phrase: to preach deliverance to the captives: "to let them know, that are yet slaves to sin and to their lusts, that there is a way for their deliverance."

Vincent: Word Studies in the New Testament, vol. I, pg. 291, bruised: "Lit. broken in pieces."

Barnes' Notes on the New Testament pg. 196 "It is also one proof that the gospel is true. If it had been of men, it would have sought the rich and mighty. But it pours contempt on all human greatness, and seeks, like God, to do good to those whom the world overlooks or despises."

Vs 21

New Bible Commentary pg. 846 "He began to say. There is a solemn emphasis about these words in their context. When Jesus sat down, showing that He intended to teach, a hushed and eager expectation took possession of the people. Then He broke the silence with an amazing claim."

Vs 22

Barnes' Notes on the New Testament pg. 197, "They were struck with the truth and force of his words; and especially when they remembered that he was a native of their own place, and that they had been long acquainted with him, and that he should now claim to be the Messiah, and give so much evidence that he was the Christ."

Vs 23

Vincent: Word Studies in the New Testament, vol. I, pg. 292 "Physician, heal thyself. A saying which Luke alone records, and which would forcibly appeal to him as a physician."

Vs 24

Morris: Tyndale New Testament Commentary, vol. 3, pg. 107 "People are always more ready to see greatness in strangers than in those they know well."

Vs 25-27

Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy Bible, vol. 3, pg. 206-207. Poole suggests that Jesus was trying to teach three things by these examples of Elijah and Elisha: 1. The freeness of God's distinguishing grace, 2. That it is through the fault of men, if they receive not the benefits of Divine grace, 3. That in every nation he that feared God, and wrought righteousness, was ever accepted of him.

Matthew Henry's Commentary, vol. V, pg. 626 "If they had mixed faith with those gracious words of Christ which they wondered at, they would have been awakened by these latter words of his to take heed of sinning away their opportunities; but those only pleased the ear, and went no further, and therefore these grated on the ear, and irritated their corruptions."

Vs 28

Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy Bible, vol. 3, pg. 207 "This is further matter of observation, that wretched sinners, who cannot obtain of their lusts to be as good and holy as others, yet are ordinarily so proud, as they have no patience to hear that others are better than they, or have or shall have any more special share in God's favour."

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This study on Luke 4:14-32 1997 by David Humpal. All rights reserved.