Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 4].
popular conception of Jesus as the son of Joseph appears also in
Joh 1:45. The puzzle of the people was due to their previous
knowledge of Jesus as the carpenter (Mr 6:3; the carpenter's
son, Mt 13:55). For him now to appear as the Messiah in
Nazareth where he had lived and laboured as the carpenter was a
phenomenon impossible to credit on sober reflection. So the mood
of wonder and praise quickly turned with whispers and nods and
even scowls to doubt and hostility, a rapid and radical
transformation of emotion in the audience.
4:23 {Doubtless} (\pant•s\). Adverb. Literally, at any rate,
certainly, assuredly. Cf. Ac 21:22; 28:4. {This parable} (\t•n
parabol•n taut•n\). See discussion on ¯Mt 13. Here the word has
a special application to a crisp proverb which involves a
comparison. The word physician is the point of comparison. Luke
the physician alone gives this saying of Jesus. The proverb means
that the physician was expected to take his own medicine and to
heal himself. The word \parabol•\ in the N.T. is confined to the
Synoptic Gospels except Heb 9:9; 11:19. This use for a proverb
occurs also in Lu 5:36; 6:39. This proverb in various forms
appears not only among the Jews, but in Euripides and Aeschylus
among the Greeks, and in Cicero's _Letters_. Hobart quotes the
same idea from Galen, and the Chinese used to demand it of their
physicians. The point of the parable seems to be that the people
were expecting him to make good his claim to the Messiahship by
doing here in Nazareth what they had heard of his doing in
Capernaum and elsewhere. "Establish your claims by direct
evidence" (Easton). This same appeal (Vincent) was addressed to
Christ on the Cross (Mt 27:40,42). There is a tone of sarcasm
towards Jesus in both cases. {Heard done} (\•kousamen genomena\).
The use of this second aorist middle participle \genomena\ after
\•kousamen\ is a neat Greek idiom. It is punctiliar action in
indirect discourse after this verb of sensation or emotion
(Robertson, _Grammar_, pp. 1040-42, 1122-24). {Do also here}
(\poi•son kai h•de\). Ingressive aorist active imperative. Do it
here in thy own country and town and do it now. Jesus applies the
proverb to himself as an interpretation of their real attitude
towards himself.
4:24 {And he said} (\eipen de\). Also in 1:13. The interjection
of these words here by Luke may indicate a break in his address,
though there is no other indication of an interval here. Perhaps
they only serve to introduce solemnly the new proverb like the
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