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Scott's Reference Library
Luke 4:14 through Luke 4:21 (NIV)
14Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him
spread through the whole countryside. 15He taught in their synagogues, and
everyone praised him.
16He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he
went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. 17The
scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place
where it is written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
20Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The
eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, 21and he began by saying
to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 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 and on him, without measure. By Christ,
sinners may be loosed from the bonds of guilt, and by his Spirit and grace from
the bondage of corruption. He came by the word of his gospel, to bring light to
those that sat in the dark, and by the power of his grace, to give sight to
those that were blind. And he preached the acceptable year of the Lord. Let
sinners attend to the Saviour’s invitation when liberty is thus proclaimed.
Christ’s name was Wonderful; in nothing was he more so than in the word of his
grace, and the power that went along with it. We may well wonder that he should
speak such words of grace to such graceless wretches as mankind. Some prejudice
often furnishes an objection against the humbling doctrine of the cross; and
while it is the word of God that stirs up men’s enmity, they will blame the
conduct or manner of the speaker. The doctrine of God’s sovereignty, his right
to do his will, provokes proud men. They will not seek his favour in his own
way; and are angry when others have the favours they neglect. Still is Jesus
rejected by multitudes who hear the same message from his words. While they
crucify him afresh by their sins, may we honour him as the Son of God, the
Saviour of men, and seek to show we do so by our obedience.