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Luke 4:14

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.”

— WEB

“And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.”

— KJV

“And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and a fame went out concerning him through all the region round about.”

— ASV

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Commentary

After Christ had vanquished the evil spirit, he made it appear how much he was under the influence of the good Spirit; and, having defended himself against the devil's assaults, he now begins to act offensively, and to make those attacks upon him, by his preaching and miracles, which he could not resist or repel. Observe, I. What is here said in general of his preaching, and the entertainment it met with in Galilee, a remote part of the country, distant from Jerusalem; it was a part of Christ's humiliation that he began his ministry there. But, 1. Thither he came in the power of the Spirit. The same Spirit that qualified him for the exercise of his prophetical office strongly inclined him to it. He was not to wait for a call from men, for he had light and life in himself. 2. There he taught in their synagogues, their places of public worship, where they met, not, as in the temple, for ceremonial services, but for the moral acts of devotion, to read, expound, and apply, the word, to pray and praise, and for church-discipline; these came to be more frequent since the captivity, when the ceremonial worship was near expiring. 3. This he did so as that he gained a great reputation. A fame of him went through all that region (Luk 4:14), and it was a good fame; for (Luk 4:15) he was glorified of all.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)

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