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Scott's Reference Library
Luke 4:21 through Luke 4:30 (NIV)
21and he began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your
hearing.”
22All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his
lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.
23Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician,
heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in
Capernaum.’”
24“I tell you the truth,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.
25I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the
sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout
the land. 26Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath
in the region of Sidon. 27And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the
time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the
Syrian.”
28All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29They got
up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the
town was built, in order to throw him down the cliff. 30But he walked right
through the crowd and went on his way.
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.