Luke 4:20. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.
In those days, the preacher sat down, and those who listened stood up, I daresay that practice tended to keep the hearers awake, and it was all the easier for the speaker. Well might the Saviour sit down, weighted as he was with a burden of holy instruction that he was about to impart to the people; or, perhaps, sitting down as if himself at rest, he appeared the more ready to give rest to them also.
Luke 4:20. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
The young Nazarene, who had quitted them for a while, and had come home again, was the center of his fellow-townsmen’s attention.
Luke 4:20. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.
In those days, the preacher sat down, and those who listened stood up, I daresay that practice tended to keep the hearers awake, and it was all the easier for the speaker. Well might the Saviour sit down, weighted as he was with a burden of holy instruction that he was about to impart to the people; or, perhaps, sitting down as if himself at rest, he appeared the more ready to give rest to them also.
Luke 4:20. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
The young Nazarene, who had quitted them for a while, and had come home again, was the center of his fellow-townsmen’s attention.