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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman; the Syrian. He, too, was a heathen from a distant country. Healing came unto him, but unto none of the lepers of Israel. God will do as he pleases with his own mercy and grace. The question that he asks is, “Is it not lawful for me to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. Only the stranger and foreigner was cured of the disease of leprosy; another instance of divine sovereignty. Men do not like this doctrine of sovereignty; they are willing to have a god if he is not God; they do not mind...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 account for it, how he should come by his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, They did not mind hearing the first part of his teaching; but now that he exalts the sovereignty of God, and lays the sinner low, he speaks too plainly for them: “They were filled with wrath.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, They were at first very pleased to have a promising young Preacher out of their own town, and they said one to another, “Did not he speak well?” Now they have changed their note; be has been too faithful for them. He has exalted God instead of man; and now they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue,— They admired Christ’s style of speech, but when he came to that man-humbling and God-glorifying doctrine, they were filled with wrath,—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As they heard these things; and they rose up, and cast him forth out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went his way. This exposition consisted of readings from Luk_4:16-30; and Joh_8:37-59. (R.V.)
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 had done something deserving of death; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. But he passing through the midst of them went his way, They could not destroy him at that time. His work was not done, and he was immortal till it was fully accomplished.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. But he passing through the midst of them went his way. With that holy calm in which he always dwelt, with wondrous self-possession, he passed through the midst of them, and escaped their malice....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 see him, or know him, as in Lu 24:16 however it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 sabbath days: that is, he went into the synagogue at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath day. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. God grant that his Word may be with power tonight! Amen.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 and indifference, and dependence on the sense and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 was filled with the spirit of the devil, with a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, 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. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? There are many people, at the present day, who have this evil spirit in them and they also say, “Let us alone.” They do not want to have their consciences...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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; [See comments on Mr 1:24].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. That is an old trick of the devil, to acknowledge the excellence of the Preacher that he may avoid the personal application of the sermon; and there are many people, who are quite satisfied when they have said concerning the Word which they have heard, “Yes, it was all...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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; [See comments on Matthew 1:25]. and when the devil had thrown him in the midst; in the "midst of them", as the Arabic version adds; that is, in...