Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Luke 9:1

συγκαλεσάμενος δὲ : the δὲ turns attention to a new subject, and the part συγκαλ. implies that it is a matter of importance: calling together the Twelve, out of the larger company of disciples that usually followed Jesus, including the women mentioned in Luke 8:1-3. δύναμιν καὶ ἐξουσίαν, power and right; power implies right. The man that can cast out devils and heal disease is entitled to do so, nay bound. This principle found an important application in St. Paul's claim to be an apostle, which really rested on fitness, insight. I understand Christianity, therefore I am entitled to be an apostle of it. Lk. alone has both words to express unlimited authority (Hahn). Mt. and Mk. have ἐξουσίαν. ἐπὶ πάντα, etc., over all the demons, and (also power and authority) to heal diseases, the latter a subordinate function; thoroughly to quell the demons (πάντα emphatic) the main thing. Hence the Seventy on their return speak of that alone (Luke 10:17).

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