Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 4].
him, but three are representatives of all. {For a season} (\achri
kairou\). Until a good opportunity should return, the language
means. We are thus to infer that the devil returned to his attack
from time to time. In the Garden of Gethsemane he tempted Jesus
more severely than here. He was here trying to thwart the purpose
of Jesus to go on with his Messianic plans, to trip him at the
start. In Gethsemane the devil tried to make Jesus draw back from
the culmination of the Cross with all its agony and horror. The
devil attacked Jesus by the aid of Peter (Mr 8:33), through the
Pharisees (Joh 8:40ff.), besides Gethsemane (Lu 22:42,53).
4:14 {Returned} (\hupestrepsen\). Luke does not fill in the gap
between the temptations in the wilderness of Judea and the
Galilean Ministry. He follows the outline of Mark. It is John's
Gospel alone that tells of the year of obscurity (Stalker) in
various parts of the Holy Land. {In the power of the Spirit} (\en
t•i dunamei tou pneumatos\). Luke in these two verses (14,15)
gives a description of the Galilean Ministry with three marked
characteristics (Plummer): the power of the spirit, rapid spread
of Christ's fame, use of the Jewish synagogues. Luke often notes
the power of the Holy Spirit in the work of Christ. Our word
dynamite is this same word \dunamis\ (power). {A fame} (\ph•m•\).
An old Greek word found in the N.T. only here and Mt 9:26. It
is from \ph•mi\, to say. Talk ran rapidly in every direction. It
assumes the previous ministry as told by John.
4:15 {And he taught} (\kai autos edidasken\). Luke is fond of
this mode of transition so that it is not certain that he means
to emphasize "he himself" as distinct from the rumour about him.
It is the imperfect tense, descriptive of the habit of Jesus. The
synagogues were an open door to Jesus before the hostility of the
Pharisees was aroused. {Being glorified} (\doxazomenos\). Present
passive participle, durative action like the imperfect
\edidasken\. General admiration of Jesus everywhere. He was the
wonder teacher of his time. Even the rabbis had not yet learned
how to ridicule and oppose Jesus.
4:16 {Where he had been brought up} (\hou •n tethrammenos\). Past
perfect passive periphrastic indicative, a state of completion in
past time, from \treph•\, a common Greek verb. This visit is
before that recorded in Mr 6:1-6; Mt 13:54-58 which was just
before the third tour of Galilee. Here Jesus comes back after a
year of public ministry elsewhere and with a wide reputation (Lu
4:15). Luke may have in mind 2:51, but for some time now
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