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Samuel Johnson · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Johnson - The Messiah's Year of Obscurity). If you choose to bypass this background explanation, it will not significantly alter your understanding of the events beginning in Luke 4:14. Thomas Constable introduces Jesus' Galilean ministry with an excellent comment Luke again drew his readers’ attention to the fact that Jesus was under the control of the Holy Spirit as He began His public ministry (cf. Lk 1:35; Lk 3:22; Lk 4:1). The Spirit empowered and enabled Jesus in His words and deeds. Luke would stress His teaching ministry. Luke attributed Jesus’ success to His orientation to the Spirit, not His essential deity. Consequently He was a model that all believers can and should copy. Luke continued to stress the Holy Spirit’s ministry in Acts. (Expository Notes) (Bolding added) John MacArthur gives us background on the relation of Jesus and the Holy Spirit during His 3 year earthly ministry - Beginning with His miraculous conception (Luke 1:35; cf. Matt. 1:18, 20), the Spirit was involved in every aspect of Christ’s life (cf. Lk 4:1, 14; 10:21; Matt. 4:1; 12:28; Acts 10:38; Heb. 9:14)....Throughout Christ’s entire life, including His development (Luke 2:52), sinless obedience, triumph over temptation, preaching, healing, casting out demons, death (cf. Heb. 9:14), and resurrection (cf. Rom. 1:4), His deity was mediated to His humanity by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit’s power was essential, since in His deity Christ would not have done the miraculous deeds He did, or say the divine words He spoke. (ED: YOU MAY WANT TO READ THAT STATEMENT AGAIN!) The reason for that is found in Philippians 2:6–7, which says that “although [Christ] existed in the form of God, [He] did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.” Jesus voluntarily surrendered the independent use of His divine power, and submitted Himself completely to the will of the Father. And though His human nature was sinlessly perfect, it nevertheless did not have supernatural power. Thus Christ performed His miraculous deeds through the Spirit’s power, so much so that to attribute His works to Satan is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit (Matt. 12:31–32). It must be stressed that that in no way limits Christ’s full deity and equality with the Father (cf. Col. 2:9). But in the wonder and mystery of the incarnation, He set aside the independent use of His divine attributes. (See Luke Commentary) (Bolding Adde) THOUGHT - The point of emphasizing Jesus' continued dependence on the Holy Spirit for supernatural power for His ministry is to underscore every believer's desperate need to rely on the same Source of power for our ministry. In short to have fruitful ministries believers ABSOLUTELY MUST "walk in the same manner as He walked" (1 Jn 2:6+), following "in His steps" (1Pe 2:21+), and "join in following (Paul's) example" (Php 3:17+). And what was Paul's example, or more precisely what was his command? "Be (present imperative) imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ." (1 Cor 11:1+) And how can we obey Paul's command? Only one way - We must rely on the Holy Spirit to obey Paul's command! (See note on "How to Keep All 1642 Commandments in the New Testament!") (See related discussion of The Holy Spirit-Walking Like Jesus Walked!) And Jesus returned (hupostrepho) to Galilee in the power (dunamis) of the Spirit - The verb returned (hupostrepho) means He had been there before and of course this is where He had spent His childhood. Click for Barclay's discussion of Galilee. It is very surprising that most commentaries I surveyed on the Gospel of Luke did little more that mention the fact that Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit, without placing any significant emphasis on how believers and churches (A Spirit Filled Church) could and should seek to emulate and imitate Jesus' pattern for ministry. One wonders if this paucity of discussion on our need for the Holy Spirit could account for paucity of significant spiritual power and influence in America in 2022 for the days are becoming increasingly evil? Just a thought to ponder!
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Johnson - The Messiah's Year of Obscurity) Stated another way the events recorded in John 1:19-4:44 are found only in John's Gospel. Jesus "Year of Obscurity" is also known as His Early Judean ministry (see above in the unshaded area) because most of the events occurred in Judea the province in which Jerusalem is located (See map). Note however that some of the events in John 1:19-4:44 took place in Galilee (e.g., Jn 4:1-3 = "left Judea and went away again into Galilee") and in Samaria (Jn 4:4-42) and then back to Galilee (Jn 4:43, 44). Although it is somewhat confusing, hopefully you can understand now why Luke 4:14 begins with the phrase "And Jesus returned to Galilee." JESUS' RETURNS TO GALILEE THIS TOUR WILL LAST ABOUT 18 MONTHS Matthew 4:12-17 Mark 1:14-15 Luke 4:14-15 12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been taken into custody, He withdrew into Galilee; 13 and leaving Nazareth, He came and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali. 14 This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: 15 “THE LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF NAPHTALI, BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF THE GENTILES–16 “THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED.” 17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” 14 Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” 14 And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread through all the surrounding district. 15 And He began teaching in their synagogues and was praised by all. The Gospel of John now appears to parallel the passages in the Synoptic Gospels recorded above, John 4:45 beginning "So when He came to Galilee." Once Jesus has returned to Galilee John 4:45-54+ then records the healing of the royal official's son in Cana of Galilee, a healing which John says "is again a second sign that Jesus performed when He had come out of Judea into Galilee." (Jn 4:54+) This miracle by Jesus at the beginning of His Galilean ministry is found only in the Gospel of John. THERE IS ONE ADDITIONAL NOTE REGARDING TIMING WHICH IS RELATED TO JOHN THE BAPTIST - Ryrie writes that "Between the temptation of Jesus and the imprisonment of John the Baptist occurred the events recorded in John 1:19-4:44. (See MAP C for events in this section of John) The problem is that Luke describes John's imprisonment in Lk 3:20+ writing "Herod also added this to them all: he locked John up in prison." Most commentators interpret this as out of chronological order. For example, John