01 gospel of luke 09 23-15 (4 14-30) ss

Barry Hollis www.bnhollis.combnh@bnhollis.com

The Gospel of LukeFall Semester

Session 01

September 23, 2015

Ministry In Galilee14 Then Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread throughout the entire vicinity. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, being acclaimed by everyone.

Rejection at Nazareth 16 He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As usual, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. 17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to Him, and unrolling the scroll, He found the place where it was written:

Luke 4:14-17

18 The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

20 He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled.”

Luke 4:18-21

22 They were all speaking well of Him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from His mouth, yet they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

23 Then He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. So all we’ve heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown also.’ ”

Luke 4:22-23

24 He also said, “I assure you: No prophet is accepted in his hometown. 25 But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them—but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27 And in the prophet Elisha’s time, there were many in Israel who had serious skin diseases, yet not one of them was healed —only Naaman the Syrian.”

Luke 4:24-27

28 When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged. 29 They got up, drove Him out of town, and brought Him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl Him over the cliff. 30 But He passed right through the crowd and went on His way.

Luke 4:28-30

Ministry In Galilee14 Then Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news (pheme) about Him spread throughout the entire vicinity. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, being acclaimed by everyone.

Rejection at Nazareth 16 He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As usual, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. 17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to Him, and unrolling the scroll, He found the place where it was written:

Luke 4:14-17

18 The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. - from the LXX

20 He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled.”

Luke 4:18-21

… this practice may be supported by the discovery of special seats or chairs as part of synagogue architecture. Shown here to the left of the doorway of the second-century AD synagogue at Chorazim is an elaborately carved seat. It is thought to have been meant for someone of importance such as an elder or synagogue official. It has been suggested that it was the “seat of Moses,” which is where the teachers of the law would provide instruction. - France, Luke, 2013, 70.

Jesus read the words of the prophet Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth. Here is a portion of the Isaiah Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran. This is the kind of scroll Jesus would have been given to read. - France, Luke, 68.

The Complete Isaiah Scroll

Isaiah 61 begins with a renewed focus on the prophet and his message. The good news announced in Isa. 61 is anticipated by the message in chapters 58–60, where the call to repentance accompanies the promise of God’s salvation. Chapter 61 stands out, however, in that the proclamation is to be performed by an individual who receives the special anointment of the Spirit. This individual has parallels in the servant figure of Isa. 40–55. … Thus Beuken (1989) is correct in understanding Isa. 61 as an “interpretation” of Isa. 40–55.

G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, 2007, 288.

In light of Isa. 40–55, these individual elements point to the same reality: the reversal of the fortunes of God’s oppressed people (see M. Turner 1996: 250). Metaphors from the economic, political, physical, and social realms were used to express the expectation of the total reversal of the fate of Israel with the arrival of the eschatological era. Isa. 61:1–2, therefore, does not provide a detailed agenda of the prophet’s ministry; it does echo Isa. 40:1–11 in proclaiming consolation to Israel when God lifts up his humiliated people.

G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, 2007, 288.

22 They were all speaking well of Him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from His mouth, yet they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

23 Then He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb (parabole) to Me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. So all we’ve heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown also.’ ”

Luke 4:22-23

24 He also said, “I assure you: No prophet is accepted in his hometown. 25 But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them—but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27 And in the prophet Elisha’s time, there were many in Israel who had serious skin diseases, yet not one of them was healed —only Naaman the Syrian.”

Note: Elijah’s story comes from 1 Kings 17:8-24. Elisha’s story comes from 2 Kings 5:1-19.

Luke 4:24-27

28 When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged. 29 They got up, drove Him out of town, and brought Him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl Him over the cliff. 30 But He passed right through the crowd and went on His way.

Note: As far as we know, Jesus never returned to Nazareth, as rejection can be final. – Morris, Luke, 128.

Luke 4:28-30

In 4:29 the residents of Nazareth are most likely intending to stone Jesus as they take him outside of town to a cliff. There is no modern consensus on a location. The traditional site for this event is known as Mount Precipice and is shown here. - France, Luke, 2013, 72.