John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:19
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Ver. 19. The acceptable year of the Lord ] A joyful jubilee. Let us not stand out the time, lest we be bored in the ear by the devil. read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:20
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. Ver. 20. Were fastened on him ] A good help against distractions. Our hearts are fickle and fugitive, if not hard held to it. read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:21
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. Ver. 21. This day is this scripture, &c. ] This the sum of his sermon, as were also the prophecies we read, the heads only and short notes of the prophets’ larger discourses. Brevity breeds obscurity. read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:22
22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son? Ver. 22. Is not this Joseph’s son? ] And what of that? But it is still the course of our hearers, to look round about us, if possibly they may find any hole in our coat, through which to slight and slip the cords of our doctrine, though they cannot but admire it. read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:23
23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. Ver. 23. Physician, heal thyself ] That is, thy country. So that for a man to cure his country is to cure himself. read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:24
24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. Ver. 24. No prophet is accepted ] See Trapp on " Mat 13:57 " read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:25
25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; Ver. 25. Many widows were in Israel ] q.d. God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, &c. He is a free agent, and may do with his own as he pleaseth. If the prophets, by the Spirit’s direction, healed and helped foreigners sooner than Israelites, what so great wonder that Christ did not for his own country... read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:26
26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. Ver. 26. That was a widow ] A calamitous name, 2 Samuel 14:5 . The Hebrews call her Almanah, a dumb woman, because either she dare not or may not speak for herself: but God professeth himself the patron of such; and he can speak for them in the hearts of their greatest adversaries. Happy they in such an advocate. read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:27
27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. Ver. 27. Naaman the Syrian ] Nor he neither so long as he looked upon God’s Jordan with Syrian eyes. read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:18
18 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, Ver. 18. He hath anointed me to preach ] Therefore the gospel is a sure saying, and worthy of all acceptation, since it is an effect of the Holy Spirit: doubt not its excellence, authority, certainty, sufficiency. See my "True... read more