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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 out the middle clause, to keep thee in all thy...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 Satan; whom Christ singly addresses, and makes answer...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Do nothing presumptuously. Do nothing which would lead the Lord to act otherwise than according to his settled laws, which are always right and good.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 tried every way, and all sorts of temptations with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: He had not lost anything by the temptation, the power of the Spirit was still upon him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 speaking is used by the Targumist, on Micah 3:8. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. He became popular; the people resorted to him, and were glad to hear him. He who has had secret temptation and private conflict is prepared to bear open success without being elevated by it. Hast thou stood foot to foot...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: Ah, dear brethren, if our Lord Jesus needed “the power of the Spirit”, how much more do you and I need it! We have no power of our own, but he was the Son of God. He was a divine Teacher, and yet, when he went to his work, it was “in the power of the Spirit.” Tarry, brother, till you have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. There was a wondrous power about his teaching: “Never man spake like this man.” Perhaps his hearers did not understand what the power was; but they glorified the new Teacher who had come into their midst.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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: being glorified of all; that heard him: they were...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 wrought at a trade, and was well known to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: It is always a difficult thing for a young man to begin preaching in His own native town. A prophet is not without honour save in his own country, yet Jesus “came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.” Luk_4:16. And, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he came to Nazareth, where lie had been, brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered? into him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when, he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord, is upon me, because he hath...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and he entered, as his custom was, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And he opened the book, and found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there was delivered unto him,.... By the "Chazan", or minister, to whom he gave it again, Lu 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 method taken was this (s); "the "Chazan", or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, that is, unrolled the parchment containing Isaiah’s prophecy, — Luk_4:17. He found the place where it was written, You will find the passage in the sixty-first chapter of Isaiah.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 graces, who was, and abode on Christ, as a Spirit...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. There he stopped; it was all of the passage that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 "acceptable to the Lord": the sufferings of Christ were...