AND JESUS BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST,.... The Spirit of God having descended on him at his baptism, and afresh anointed, and filled his human nature with his gifts, whereby, as man, he was abundantly furnished for the great work of the public ministry, he was just about to enter upon; yet must fir... [ Continue Reading ]
BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read the phrase, "forty days", in connection with the latter part of the preceding verse; according to which the sense is, that Jesus was led by the Spirit forty days in the wilderness, before he was... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DEVIL SAID UNTO HIM,.... Who now visibly appeared, and spoke unto him with an articulate voice: IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD; as has been just now declared by a voice from heaven; or seeing thou art in such a relation to God, and so equal to him, and possessed of all divine perfections, and am... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED HIM, SAYING, IT IS WRITTEN,.... In Deuteronomy 8:3 THAT MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD OF GOD; suggesting hereby, that when it is the will of God, human nature may be maintained by the influence of divine power, without the use of ordinary means; and that br... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DEVIL TAKING HIM UP INTO AN HIGH MOUNTAIN,.... Somewhere near Jerusalem, but what mountain is not certain. The Evangelist Luke makes this to be the second temptation, which, with Matthew, is the third and last; and whose order seems to be more proper and natural than this, and to be the true... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DEVIL SAID UNTO HIM, ALL THIS POWER WILL I GIVE THEE,..... That is, all the kingdoms of the world, and all the government and jurisdiction over them: AND THE GLORY OF THEM; the riches, honours, and grandeur belonging to them: FOR THAT IS DELIVERED UNTO ME: so far he spoke modestly, in that... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THOU THEREFORE WILT WORSHIP ME,.... Or "before me"; that is, fall down before him, and give him divine worship and homage. A wide difference there is between a good angel and a fallen angel; a good angel will not suffer himself to be worshipped by men, but directs to the worship of God only, Reve... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM,.... The following words, with indignation at him, and detestation of his proposals: GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN; which are omitted in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, and in three ancient copies of Beza's, and in his most ancient one; but sta... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM,.... The holy city, as Matthew calls it, from the wilderness thither; where he found him, and first attacked him, and perhaps he brought him through the air: and set him on a pinnacle of the temple; which was in Jerusalem; Matthew 4:6. AND SAID UNTO HIM, IF THOU BE... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT IS WRITTEN,.... In Psalms 91:11 "He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee; and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone." It is an observation made long ago by Jerom, on Psalms 91:11 that Satan, in citing this text, has left ou... [ Continue Reading ]
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AND JESUS ANSWERING SAID UNTO HIM, IT IS SAID,.... In Deuteronomy 6:16 THOU SHALT NOT TEMPT THE LORD THY GOD: in the text in Deuteronomy the words are, "ye shall not tempt the Lord your God." The second person plural, is here changed into the second person singular, to accommodate the words to Sata... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE DEVIL HAD ENDED ALL THE TEMPTATION,.... Or "all his temptations", as the Syriac version reads; not only the last mentioned, but all the rest, whether inward or outward, in a visible or in an invisible manner; whether during his forty days fast, or after he was an hungered, when he had t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS RETURNED IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT,.... Of which he was full, and by which he was led into the wilderness, and had combated with Satan, and had got the victory over him; and by virtue of which, he entered on his public ministry, wrought miracles, and taught with authority. A like way of s... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TAUGHT IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES,.... In the public places of worship used by the Galilaeans, where they met on sabbath days and weekdays, to read and pray, and hear the Scriptures expounded; and Christ engaging here as a public teacher, was the reason of his fame being spread around the country:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CAME TO NAZARETH,.... After some length of time, when he had gone through all Galilee, and had acquired great credit and reputation by his ministry and miracles; he came to the place, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP: where he was conceived, though not born; and where he had his education, and w... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WAS DELIVERED UNTO HIM,.... By the "Chazan", or minister, to whom he gave it again, Luke 4:20, for the "Chazan" of the synagogue, was, שמש, "the minister" r; one part of whose business was, to deliver the book of the law to, and take it from him that read: when an high priest read, the met... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME,.... By whom is meant, the third person in the Trinity; so called, to distinguish him from all other spirits; and who was given to Christ as man, without measure, whereby he was qualified for his great work: and intends the Spirit of Jehovah, with all his gifts and... [ Continue Reading ]
TO PREACH THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD. The time which he willed and fixed for the redemption of his people, and in which he showed his goodwill and pleasure unto sinful men, in the gift of his Son to them, and for them; and which, as the Arabic and Syriac versions render it, was a time "acceptab... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CLOSED THE BOOK,.... "Or rolled it up"; and so the high priest did, after he read in the book of the law, on the day of atonement, all that was necessary to be read, גולל ספר תורה, "he rolled the book of the law", and put it in his bosom f: AND HE GAVE IT AGAIN TO THE MINISTER; the Chazan g,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO THEM,.... To preach from those words; the explanation of which he gave, though not here recorded, and applied them to himself, to whom they belonged, saying: THIS DAY IS THIS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS; which is as if he should say, I am the person here spoken of; and... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL BARE HIM WITNESS,.... That he was right in applying the words to the Messiah; but not that he himself was the Messiah, and that he was right in applying them to himself; for they did not believe in him, as appears from what follows AND WONDERED AT THE GRACIOUS WORDS WHICH PROCEEDED OUT OF H... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, YE WILL SURELY SAY UNTO ME THIS PROVERB,.... Or "parable"; for any pithy sentence, or proverbial expression, was, by the Jews, called a parable: PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF; and which was a proverb in use with the Jews; and which is sometimes expressed thus, זיל אסי נפשך, "go heal... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU,.... Another proverb in use among them, the meaning of which was well known to them, and was very appropriate to the present case: NO PROPHET IS ACCEPTED IN HIS OWN COUNTRY; MATTHEW 13:57... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I TELL YOU OF A TRUTH,.... Or in truth: it answers to באמת, a phrase often used by the Jewish writers o; and, which, they say p, wherever, and of whatsoever it is spoken, it signifies a tradition of Moses from Mount Sinai, and so that which is most true, sure, and firm, and to be depended on; a... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT UNTO NONE OF THEM WAS ELIAS SENT,.... That is, to none of the poor widows in the land of Israel was the prophet sent, to supply them with food, and relieve them in their famishing circumstances, as might most reasonably have been expected: SAVE UNTO SAREPTA, A CITY OF SIDON; which in 1 Kings 17... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MANY LEPERS WERE IN ISRAEL,.... The leprosy was a disease very common among the Jews; hence those laws concerning it in Leviticus 13:1 and it seems by this account, that it was very prevalent, IN THE TIME OF ELISEUS THE PROPHET; that is, the prophet Elisha; who, by the Septuagint, in 1KI 19:16... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THEY IN THE SYNAGOGUE,.... The ruler and minister, and the whole multitude of the common people that were met together there for worship; and who before were amazed at his eloquence, and the gracefulness of his delivery; and could not but approve of his ministry, though they could not accoun... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ROSE UP,.... In great wrath, and, in a noisy and tumultuous manner, before the service was well over, and without being regularly dismissed: AND THRUST HIM OUT OF THE CITY; first out of the synagogue, and then out of their city, as unworthy to be in it, though an inhabitant of it; and as if he... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE PASSING THROUGH THE MIDST OF THEM,.... Either in so strong and powerful a manner, and with so much swiftness, that being once out of their hands, they could not lay hold on him again; or else he put on another form, or made himself invisible to them; or he held their eyes that they could not... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CAME DOWN TO CAPERNAUM,.... Which was, as Dr. Lightfoot thinks, sixteen miles or more from Nazareth; and Christ may be said to "come down" to it, because of the situation of Nazareth, which was upon an hill: A CITY OF GALILEE: of lower Galilee, near the sea of Galilee: AND TAUGHT THEM ON THE S... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS DOCTRINE,.... At the matter of it, as well as the manner in which it was delivered, it being so different from the Scribes and Pharisees, they had been used to: FOR HIS WORD WAS WITH POWER: he spake with great fervency, majesty, and authority, and not with coldness a... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THE SYNAGOGUE THERE WAS A MAN,.... That is, in the synagogue at Capernaum, as Christ was there teaching, on one of the sabbath days before mentioned; there was a certain man, WHICH HAD A SPIRIT OF AN UNCLEAN DEVIL: who was possessed with the devil, who is by nature and practice unclean; and... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, LET US ALONE,.... Not that there were more spirits in him than one, as the whole account shows; but he includes the rest of the devils in that country; Mark 1:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS REBUKED HIM,.... Not the man, but the unclean spirit: or "that demon", as the Persic version reads it: SAYING, HOLD THY PEACE, or "be thou muzzled", as the word signifies, AND COME OUT OF HIM; Matthew 1:25. AND WHEN THE DEVIL HAD THROWN HIM IN THE MIDST; in the "midst of them", as the... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED,.... The people in the synagogue; they were astonished at his doctrine before, and now at his miracles: AND SPAKE AMONG THEMSELVES; as they were in the synagogue, WHAT A WORD IS THIS? meaning, either what sort of doctrine is this which is attended with such power and mirac... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE FAME OF HIM WENT OUT,.... From hence on account of his dispossessing this unclean spirit, which seems to be the first instance of this kind: INTO EVERY PLACE IN THE COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT; into every city, town, and village in Galilee, and even into all places round about Galilee; Mark 1:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE AROSE OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE,.... That is, when he had dispossessed the unclean spirit, he rose up, and went out of the synagogue: AND ENTERED INTO SIMON'S HOUSE; the house of Simon Peter, and which was also Andrew's; and in Beza's ancient copy, and in one of Stephens's, it is added, "and of A... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE STOOD OVER HER,.... "At her head", as the Persic version reads: he inclined himself towards her, to see how she did, and to take her by the hand, and lift her up; AND REBUKED THE FEVER. The Syriac and Persic versions read, "her fever", that which was upon her; AND IT LEFT HER, as Mark says,... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN THE SUN WAS SETTING,.... And so the sabbath was over; Matthew 8:16. ALL THEY THAT HAD ANY SICK, WITH DIVERS DISEASES, BROUGHT THEM UNTO HIM; that is, as many of the inhabitants of Capernaum as had sick persons in their houses, let their diseases be what they would, brought them to Christ i... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 41 AND DEVILS ALSO CAME OUT OF MANY,.... Not willingly, nor of themselves, but at the word and command of Christ, who ordered them to depart, CRYING OUT AND SAYING; as they left the bodies, of men, and not with any goodwill to Christ: THOU ART CHRIST; the true Messiah, that was of old promise... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN IT WAS DAY,.... The "day after", as the Persic version renders it; AT THE DAWNING, or "break of day", as the Syriac. He rose a great while before it was day, as Mark says, Mark 1:35 but did not go out till it was day, or till day was coming on, when HE DEPARTED from Peter's house, and fro... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM,.... In answer to their importunate requests: I MUST PREACH THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO OTHER CITIES ALSO; as well as to Capernaum; and though they did not express their desire of his continuance with them, in order to preach the Gospel to them; yet Christ signifies, that a principa... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE PREACHED IN THE SYNAGOGUES OF GALILEE. In the several synagogues that were in different cities and towns throughout all Galilee.... [ Continue Reading ]