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Quotes & Notes on:
Luke
4:18
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John Wesley, Notes On the New Testament (1755):
He hath anointed me-With
the Spirit. He hath by the power of his Spirit which dwelleth in me, set
me apart for these offices.
To preach the Gospel to the poor-Literally and spiritually. How is the
doctrine of the ever-blessed trinity interwoven, even in those
scriptures where one would least expect it? How clear a declaration of
the great Three-One is there in those very words,
The Spirit-of the Lord is upon me! To proclaim deliverance to the
captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them
that are bruised-Here is a beautiful gradation, in comparing the
spiritual state of men to the miserable state of those captives, who are
not only cast into prison, but, like Zedekiah, had their eyes put out,
and were laden and bruised with chains of iron. Isa 61:1.
- Reginald Fuller's
Preaching the Lectionary (1984):
To
be posted.
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William Baird,
Interpreter's Commentary, 1971:
To
be posted.
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J. McNicol, The New Bible
Commentary, 1954:
To
be posted.
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I.H. Marshall, The New
Bible Commentary, 1970:
To
be posted.
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David Guzik,
Study Guide:
To
be posted.
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Chuck Smith,
Study Guide:
To
be posted.
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Catechism of the Catholic
Church:
To
be posted.
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J. Norval Geldenhuys,
Bible Expositor, 1960:
To
be posted.
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Abingdon Bible Commentary
(1929):
To
be posted.
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D.D. Whedon, Commentary
on Luke, 1866:
To
be posted.
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Joseph Parker, People's
Bible, 1901:
To
be posted.
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Anchor Bible:
To
be posted.
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The Fourfold Gospel:
Because he anointed me to preach good
tidings to the poor. Anointing was the method by which prophets,
priests, and kings were consecrated or set apart to their several
offices. This prophecy says that the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus because
he was appointed to do a work of divine helpfulness.
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
* Spirit. Ps 45:7; Isa 11:2-5; 42:1-4; 50:4; 59:21
* anointed. Ps 2:2,6*marg:| Da 9:24; Joh 1:41; Ac 4:27; 10:38
* to preach. Lu 6:20; 7:22; Isa 29:19; Zep 3:12; Zec 11:11; Mt 5:3;
11:5; Jas 2:5
* to heal. 2Ch 34:27; Ps 34:18; 51:17; 147:3; Isa 57:15; 66:2; Eze 9:4
* to preach deliverance. Ps 102:20; 107:10-16; 146:7; Isa 42:7; 45:13;
49:9,24; 52:2,3 Zec 9:11,12; Col 1:13
* and. Ps 146:8; Isa 29:18; 32:3; 35:5; 42:16-18; 60:1,2; Mal 4:2 Mt
4:16; 9:27-30; 11:5; Joh 9:39-41; 12:46; Ac 26:18; Eph 5:8-14 1Th 5:5,6;
1Pe 2:9; 1Jo 2:8-10
* bruised. Ge 3:15; Isa 42:3; Mt 12:20
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Robertson's Word Pictures:
Anointed
me (echrisen me). First aorist active indicative of the verb chriô from
which Christ (Christos) is derived, the Anointed One. Isaiah is
picturing the Jubilee year and the release of captives and the return
from the Babylonian exile with the hope of the Messiah through it all.
Jesus here applies this Messianic language to himself. "The Spirit of
the Lord is upon me" as was shown at the baptism (Lu 3:21) where he was
also "anointed" for his mission by the Father's voice (Lu 3:22). To the
poor (ptôchois). Jesus singles this out also as one of the items to tell
John the Baptist in prison (Lu 7:22). Our word Gospel is a translation
of the Greek Euaggelion, and it is for the poor. He hath sent me (apestalken
me). Change of tense to perfect active indicative. He is now on that
mission here. Jesus is God's Apostle to men (Joh 17:3, Whom thou didst
send). Proclaim (kêruxai). As a herald like Noah (2Pe 2:5). To the
captives (aichmalôtois). Prisoners of war will be released (aichmê, a
spear point, and halôtos, from haliskomai, to be captured). Captured by
the spear point. Common word, but here only in the N.T. Set at liberty (aposteilai).
First aorist active infinitive of apostellô. Same verb as apestalken,
above. Brought in here from Isa 58:6. Plummer suggests that Luke inserts
it here from memory. But Jesus could easily have turned back the roll
and read it so. Them that are bruised (tethrausmenous). Perfect passive
participle of thrauô, an old verb, but here only in the N.T. It means to
break in pieces broken in heart and often in body as well. One loves to
think that Jesus felt it to be his mission to mend broken hearts like
pieces of broken earthenware, real rescue-mission work. Jesus mends them
and sets them free from their limitations.
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William Burkitt's Notes:
No comment on this verse.
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Family Bible Notes:
No comment on this verse.
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1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
No comment on this verse.
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People's New Testament Commentary:
No comment on this verse.
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Albert Barnes' Commentary:
The Spirit {m} of the Lord is upon me. Or, I speak by divine
appointment. I am divinely inspired to speak. There can be no doubt that
the passage in Isaiah had a principal reference to the Messiah. Our
Saviour directly applies it to himself, and it is not easily applicable
to any other prophet. Its first application might have been to the
restoration of the Jews from Babylon; but the language of prophecy is
often applicable to two similar events, and the secondary event is often
the most important. In this case the prophet uses most striking poetic
images to depict the return from Babylon, but the same images also
describe the appropriate work of the Son of God.
Hath anointed me. Anciently kings and prophets and the high-priest were
set apart to their work by anointing with oil, 1Ki 19:15,16; Ex 29:7;
1Sa 9:16, &c. This oil or ointment was made of various substances, and
it was forbidden to imitate it, Ex 30:34-38. Hence those who were set
apart to the work of God as king, prophet, or priest, were called the
Lord's anointed, 1Sa 16:6; Ps 84:9; Isa 45:1. Hence the Son of God is
called the Messiah, a Hebrew word signifying the Anointed, or the
Christ, a Greek word signifying the same thing. And by his being
anointed is not meant that he was literally anointed, for he was never
set apart in that manner, but that God had set him apart for this work;
that he had constituted or appointed him to be the prophet, priest, and
king of his people. See Barnes for Mt 1:1.
To preach the gospel to the poor. The English word gospel is derived
from two words--God or good, and spell, an old Saxon word meaning
history, relation, narration, word, or speech, and the word therefore
means a good communication or message. This corresponds exactly with the
meaning of the Greek word -- a good or joyful message--glad tidings. By
the poor are meant all those who are destitute of the comforts of this
life, and who therefore may be more readily disposed to seek treasures
in heaven; all those who are sensible of their sins, or are poor in
spirit (Mt 5:3); and all the miserable and the afflicted, Isa 58:7. Our
Saviour gave it as one proof that he was the Messiah, or was from God,
that he preached to the poor, Mt 11:5. The Pharisees and Sadducees
despised the poor; ancient philosophers neglected them; but the gospel
seeks to bless them--to give comfort where it is felt to be needed, and
where it will be received with gratitude. Riches fill the mind with
pride, with self-complacency, and with a feeling that the gospel is not
needed. The poor feel their need of some sources of comfort that the
world cannot give, and accordingly our Saviour met with his greatest
success among the poor; and there also, since, the gospel has shed its
richest blessings and its purest joys. It is also one proof that the
gospel is true. If it had been of men, it would have sought the rich and
mighty; but it pours contempt on all human greatness, and seeks, like
God, to do good to those whom the world overlooks or despises. See
Barnes for 1Co 1:26.
To heal the brokenhearted. To console those who are deeply afflicted, or
whose hearts are broken by external calamities or by a sense of their
sinfulness.
Deliverance to the captives. This is a figure originally applicable to
those who were in captivity in Babylon. They were miserable. To grant
deliverance to them and restore them to their country -- to grant
deliverance to those who are in prison and restore them to their
families--to give liberty to the slave and restore him to freedom, was
to confer the highest benefit and impart the richest favour. In this
manner the gospel imparts favour. It does not, indeed, literally open
the doors of prisons, but it releases the mind captive under sin; it
gives comfort to the prisoner, and it will finally open all prison doors
and break off all the chains of slavery, and, by preventing crime,
prevent also the sufferings that are the consequence of crime.
Sight to the blind. This was often literally fulfilled, Mt 1:5; Joh
9:11; Mt 9:30, &c.
To set at liberty them that are bruised. The word bruised, here,
evidently has the same general signification as broken- hearted or the
contrite. It means those who are pressed down by great calamity, or
whose hearts are pressed or bruised by the consciousness of sin. To set
them at liberty is the same as to free them from this pressure, or to
give them consolation.
{m} Isa 61:1
{n} "heal" 2Ch 34:27; Ps 34:18; 51:17; 147:3; Isa 57:15
{o} "recovering" Ps 146:8; Isa 29:18
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Jamieson-Faussett Brown:
To have fixed on any passage announcing His sufferings (as Isa
53:1-12), would have been unsuitable at that early stage of His
ministry. But He selects a passage announcing the sublime object of His
whole mission, its divine character, and His special endowments for it;
expressed in the first person, and so singularly adapted to the first
opening of the mouth in His prophetic capacity, that it seems as if made
expressly for this occasion. It is from the well-known section of
Isaiah's prophecies whose burden is that mysterious "SERVANT OF THE
LORD," despised of man, abhorred of the nation, but before whom kings on
seeing Him are to arise, and princes to worship; in visage more marred
than any man and His form than the sons of men, yet sprinkling many
nations; laboring seemingly in vain, and spending His strength for
naught and in vain, yet Jehovah's Servant to raise up the tribes of
Jacob and be His Salvation to the ends of the earth (Isa 49:1-26, &c.).
The quotation is chiefly from the Septuagint version, used in the
synagogues.
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Spurgeon Devotional
Commentary:
No comment on this verse.
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Adam Clarke's Commentary:
The Spirit of the Lord] This is found in Isa 61:1; but our Lord
immediately adds to it Isa 42:7. The proclaiming of liberty to the
captives, and the acceptable year (or year of acceptance) of the Lord,
is a manifest allusion to the proclaiming of the year of jubilee by
sound of trumpet: see Le 25:9, &c., and the notes there. This was a year
of general release of debts and obligations; of bond-men and women; of
lands and possessions, which had been sold from the families and tribes
to which they belonged. Our Saviour, by applying this text to himself, a
text so manifestly relating to the institution above mentioned, plainly
declares the typical design of that institution.-LOWTH.
He hath anointed me] I have been designed and set apart for this very
purpose; my sole business among men is to proclaim glad tidings to the
poor, &c. All the functions of this new prophet are exercised on the
hearts of men; and the grace by which he works in the heart is a grace
of healing, deliverance, and illumination; which, by an admirable
virtue, causes them to pass from sickness to health, from slavery to
liberty, from darkness to light, and from the lowest degrees of misery
to supreme eternal happiness. See Quesnel. To those who feel their
spiritual poverty, whose hearts are broken through a sense of their
sins, who see themselves tied and bound with the chains of many evil
habits, who sit in the darkness of guilt and misery, without a friendly
hand to lead them in the way in which they should go-to these, the
Gospel of the grace of Christ is a pleasing sound, because a present and
full salvation is proclaimed by it; and the present is shown to be the
acceptable year of the Lord; the year, the time, in which he saves to
the uttermost all who come unto him in the name of his Son Jesus.
Reader! what dost thou feel? Sin-wretchedness-misery of every
description? Then come to Jesus-He will save THEE-he came into the world
for this very purpose. Cast thy soul upon him, and thou shalt not
perish, but have everlasting life.
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
No comment on this verse.
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Quotes & Notes on:
Luke
4:21
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John Wesley, Notes On the New Testament (1755):
By what you hear me speak.
- Reginald Fuller's
Preaching the Lectionary (1984):
To
be posted.
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William Baird,
Interpreter's Commentary, 1971:
To
be posted.
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J. McNicol, The New Bible
Commentary, 1954:
To
be posted.
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I.H. Marshall, The New
Bible Commentary, 1970:
To
be posted.
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David Guzik,
Study Guide:
To
be posted.
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Chuck Smith,
Study Guide:
To
be posted.
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Catechism of the Catholic
Church:
To
be posted.
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J. Norval Geldenhuys,
Bible Expositor, 1960:
To
be posted.
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Abingdon Bible Commentary
(1929):
To
be posted.
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D.D. Whedon, Commentary
on Luke, 1866:
To
be posted.
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Joseph Parker, People's
Bible, 1901:
To
be posted.
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Anchor Bible:
To
be posted.
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The Fourfold Gospel:
No comment on this verse.
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
* This day. Lu 10:23,24; Mt 13:14; Joh 4:25; 5:39; Ac 2:16-18,29-33;
3:18
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Robertson's Word Pictures:
And
he began to say (êrxato de legein). Aorist ingressive active indicative
and present infinitive. He began speaking. The moment of hushed
expectancy was passed. These may or may not be the first words uttered
here by Jesus. Often the first sentence is the crucial one in winning an
audience. Certainly this is an arresting opening sentence. Hath been
fulfilled (peplêrôtai). Perfect passive indicative, stands fulfilled.
"Today this scripture (Isa 61:1,2, just read) stands fulfilled in your
ears." It was a most amazing statement and the people of Nazareth were
quick to see the Messianic claim involved. Jesus could only mean that
the real year of Jubilee had come, that the Messianic prophecy of Isaiah
had come true today, and that in him they saw the Messiah of prophecy.
There are critics today who deny that Jesus claimed to be the Messiah.
To be able to do that, they must reject the Gospel of John and all such
passages as this one. And it is no apocalyptic eschatological Messiah
whom Jesus here sets forth, but the one who forgives sin and binds up
the broken-hearted. The words were too good to be true and to be spoken
here at Nazareth by one of their own townsmen!
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William Burkitt's Notes:
No comment on this verse.
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Family Bible Notes:
This scripture; the scripture which he
had just read, and which he said was that day fulfilled, was written
more than seven hundred years before, and strikingly described his
character and work as the Messiah.
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1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
No comment on this verse.
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People's New Testament Commentary:
By the preaching to which they were
now about to listen.
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Albert Barnes' Commentary:
This scripture. This writing, or this part of the Scriptures.
Fulfilled. It is coming to pass; the thing originally intended by it is
about to be accomplished.
In your ears. In your hearing; or you hear, in my preaching, the
fulfillment of this prophecy. It is probable that he said much more than
is here recorded, but Luke has preserved only the substance of his
discourse. This was the amount or sum of his sermon, or his explanation
of the passage, that it was now receiving its accomplishment.
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Jamieson-Faussett Brown:
His whole address was just a detailed application to Himself of
this and perhaps other like prophecies.
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Spurgeon Devotional
Commentary:
No comment on this verse.
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Adam Clarke's Commentary:
No comment on this verse.
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
No comment on this verse.
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Additional Notes
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Jesus understands his own mission as fulfilling the ancient prophecy.
- William Baird, Interpreter's
One-Volume Commentary, p. 680
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The works of God are the accomplishment no only of his secret word, but
of his word revealed; and it will help us to understand both the
scriptures and the providences of God to compare them one with another.
Matthew Henry, Commentary,
Vol. 5, p. 625
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Fulfillment in your hearing does not guarantee acceptance.
Wayne A. Meeks, HarperCollins
Study Bible, p. 1963
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Here is a beautiful gradation, in comparing the spiritual state of men
to the miserable state of those captives who were not only cast into prison,
but, like Zedekiah, had their eyes put out, and were laden and bruised
with chains of iron.
John Wesley, Notes Upon the
New Testament, Vol. 1, on vs. 18
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- O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (UMH 57)
- Blest Be the Tie That Binds (UMH 557)
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