Luke 4:20
And he rolled up the volume, and save it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all that were in the synagogue were earnestly fixed upon him.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
19to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
21And he began to say to them: This scripture which you have heard, is this day fulfilled.
Cross References
Matthew 5:1And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain; and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him;
Matthew 20:26It shall not be so among you. But whoever will be great among you, let him be your minister.
Luke 4:17And the volume of Isaiah the prophet was given to him: and when he had unrolled the volume, he found the place where it was written:
Luke 19:48and found nothing that they could do, for all the people hung on his words.
Acts 3:12But when Peter saw it, he answered the people: Men of Israel, why are you astonished at this? or, why do you look so earnestly on us, as if by our own power or godliness we had caused this man to walk?
Acts 16:13and on the sabbath-day we went out of the city to the side of a river, where, as usual, was the house of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.
Matthew Henry on Luke 4:15-31
Christ in the Synagogue of Nazareth; Christ Driven from Nazareth. 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he… Read the whole commentary →