Luke 4:1-4
THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Luke 4:1 The first temptation:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Luke 4:1 The first temptation:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST, RETURNED FROM JORDAN, AND WAS LED BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS,... [ Continue Reading ]
BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL. AND IN THOSE DAYS HE DID EAT NOTHING; AND WHEN THEY WERE ENDED, HE AFTERWARD HUNGERED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DEVIL SAID UNTO HIM, IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, COMMAND THIS STONE THAT IT BE MADE BREAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED HIM, SAYING, IT IS WRITTEN, THAT MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD OF GOD. Jesus had received the gift of the Holy Ghost at His baptism in extraordinary measure, Hebrews 1:9. He was not merely enlightened by Him, but, like a vessel, He was full of the Spirit; al... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DEVIL, TAKING HIM UP INTO AN HIGH MOUNTAIN, SHOWED UNTO HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN A MOMENT OF TIME.... [ Continue Reading ]
The second temptation:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DEVIL SAID UNTO HIM, ALL THIS POWER WILL I GIVE THEE, AND THE GLORY OF THEM; FOR THAT IS DELIVERED UNTO ME; AND TO WHOMSOEVER I WILL I GIVE IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THOU THEREFORE WILT WORSHIP ME, ALL SHALL BE THINE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, THOU SHALT WORSHIP THE LORD, THY GOD, AND HIM ONLY SHALT THOU SERVE. This temptation, in the chronological sequence, is really the third. Luke narrates the three' in a different order, because he has a different clim... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM, AND SET HIM ON A PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE, AND SAID UNTO HIM, IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, CAST THYSELF DOWN FROM HENCE;... [ Continue Reading ]
The third temptation:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT IS WRITTEN, HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER THEE TO KEEP THEE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THEIR HANDS THEY SHALL BEAR THEE UP, LEST AT ANY TIME THOU DASH THY FOOT AGAINST A STONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO HIM, IT IS SAID, THOU SHALT NOT TEMPT THE LORD, THY GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE DEVIL HAD ENDED ALL THE TEMPTATION, HE DEPARTED FROM HIM FOR A SEASON. The attempt to excite care and worry for the body in the mind of Jesus having failed, and an effort to instill cupidity, greed, and ambition for power in His heart having met with equally poor success, Satan endeavor... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BEGINNING OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY AND HIS TEACHING IN NAZARETH. Luke 4:14 The return to Galilee:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TAUGHT IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, BEING GLORIFIED OF ALL. The evangelist has here omitted a part of the gospel-story, probably that related John 2:1. For he writes that Jesus turned back into Galilee, where He had been before. In the power of the Spirit, who was with Him and took an active part in... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP; AND, AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH-DAY, AND STOOD UP FOR TO READ.... [ Continue Reading ]
The visit to Nazareth:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WAS DELIVERED UNTO HIM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ESAIAS. AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE BOOK, HE FOUND THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS WRITTEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME BECAUSE HE HATH ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; HE HATH SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PREACH DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERING OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET AT LIBERTY THEM THAT ARE BRUISED,... [ Continue Reading ]
TO PREACH THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD. In the course of the Galilean travels Jesus came to Nazareth. This little town in the hills of Galilee, situated on the brow of a hill, had been His home for almost thirty years. There He had been brought up; there He had received His education, at least in... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CLOSED THE BOOK, AND HE GAVE IT AGAIN TO THE MINISTER, AND SAT DOWN. AND THE EYES OF ALL THEM THAT WERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE WERE FASTENED ON HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sermon and its effect:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO THEM, THIS DAY IS THIS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL BARE HIM WITNESS, AND WONDERED AT THE GRACIOUS WORDS WHICH PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS MOUTH. AND THEY SAID, IS NOT THIS JOSEPH'S SON? When Jesus had finished the reading of the lesson, He rolled the parchment together again and then returned it to the servant of the synagogue, who had charge of th... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, YE WILL SURELY SAY UNTO ME THIS PROVERB, PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF; WHATSOEVER WE HAVE HEARD DONE IN CAPERNAUM, DO ALSO HERE IN THY COUNTRY.... [ Continue Reading ]
The rebuke of Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, NO PROPHET IS ACCEPTED IN HIS OWN COUNTRY.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I TELL YOU OF A TRUTH, MANY WIDOWS WERE IN ISRAEL IN THE DAYS OF ELIAS, WHEN THE HEAVEN WAS SHUT UP THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS, WHEN GREAT FAMINE WAS THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT UNTO NONE OF THEM WAS ELIAS SENT SAVE UNTO SAREPTA, A CITY OF SIDON, UNTO A WOMAN THAT WAS A WIDOW.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MANY LEPERS WERE IN ISRAEL IN THE TIME OF ELISEUS THE PROPHET; AND NONE OF THEM WAS CLEANSED SAVING NAAMAN THE SYRIAN. Even now prejudice and rejection were raising their heads in the minds of the people of Nazareth; they were refusing in their hearts to believe Him to be the Messiah of the prop... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THEY IN THE SYNAGOGUE, WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS, WERE FILLED WITH WRATH,... [ Continue Reading ]
The attempt to kill the Lord:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ROSE UP, AND THRUST HIM OUT OF THE CITY, AND LED HIM UNTO THE BROW OF THE HILL WHEREON THEIR CITY WAS BUILT, THAT THEY MIGHT CAST HIM DOWN HEADLONG.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE, PASSING THROUGH, THE MIDST OF THEM, WENT HIS WAY,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CAME DOWN TO CAPERNAUM, A CITY OF GALILEE, AND TAUGHT THEM ON THE SABBATH-DAYS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS DOCTRINE; FOR HIS WORD WAS WITH POWER. Up to this point the congregation had listened to Jesus, though with growing indignation, since He dared to expose and flay their national vice, their self-righteous pride. But now their indignation, which filled them to overflow... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THE SYNAGOGUE THERE WAS A MAN WHICH HAD A SPIRIT OF AN UNCLEAN DEVIL, AND CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE,... [ Continue Reading ]
HEALING OF A DEMONIAC AND OTHER MIRACLES. Luke 4:33 The healing of the demoniac at Capernaum:... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, LET US ALONE; WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH THEE, THOU JESUS OF NAZARETH? ART THOU COME TO DESTROY US? I KNOW THEE WHO THOU ART; THE HOLY ONE OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS REBUKED HIM, SAYING, HOLD THY PEACE, AND COME OUT OF HIM. AND WHEN THE DEVIL HAD THROWN HIM IN THE MIDST, HE CAME OUT OF HIM, AND HURT HIM NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED, AND SPAKE AMONG THEMSELVES, SAYING, WHAT A WORD IS THIS! FOR WITH AUTHORITY AND POWER HE COMMANDETH THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS, AND THEY COME OUT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE FAME OF HIM WENT OUT INTO EVERY PLACE OF THE COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT. Matthew commonly speaks of these unfortunates whom we meet in this passage as demoniacs, Mark as people with unclean spirits. The man was possessed of a devil, who worked in the body to harm him. He was evidently not always vi... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE AROSE OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE, AND ENTERED INTO SIMON'S HOUSE. AND. SIMON'S WIFE'S MOTHER WAS TAKEN WITH A GREAT FEVER; AND THEY BESOUGHT HIM FOR HER.... [ Continue Reading ]
The healing of Peter's mother-in-law:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE STOOD OVER HER, AND REBUKED THE FEVER; AND IT LEFT HER; AND IMMEDIATELY SHE AROSE AND MINISTERED UNTO THEM. From the synagogue Jesus went directly to the home of Simon Peter, of whose call Luke tells in the next chapter. Having lived at Bethsaida formerly, Simon had moved to Capernaum, where... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN THE SUN WAS SETTING, ALL THEY THAT HAD ANY SICK WITH DIVERS DISEASES BROUGHT THEM UNTO HIM; AND HE LAID HIS HANDS ON EVERY ONE OF THEM, AND HEALED THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cures on the Sabbath evening:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DEVILS ALSO CAME OUT OF MANY, CRYING OUT, AND SAYING, THOU ART CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD. AND HE, REBUKING THEM, SUFFERED THEM NOT TO SPEAK; FOR THEY KNEW THAT HE WAS CHRIST. With the setting of the sun the Sabbath was over, and therefore all Sabbath commands no longer binding. It was then that peo... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN IT WAS DAY, HE DEPARTED AND WENT INTO A DESERT PLACE; AND THE PEOPLE SOUGHT HIM, AND CAME UNTO HIM, AND STAYED HIM THAT HE SHOULD NOT DEPART FROM THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The withdrawal of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, I MUST PREACH THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO OTHER CITIES ALSO; FOR THEREFORE AM I SENT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE PREACHED IN THE SYNAGOGUES OF GALILEE. The very next morning, at break of day, Jesus left Capernaum. He followed the method He employed at other times also: He went out into the solitude to be all alone in prayer and communion with His heavenly Father. It would be of advantage to most Christi... [ Continue Reading ]