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Christ's Mission Statement
Commentators view this verse as Jesus's personal declaration of His life's purpose. By reading from Isaiah, He defines His entire ministry: to bring good news and spiritual freedom. As one scholar notes, this passage served as the "text of Christ's whole ministry," summarizing everything He came to accomplish for humanity.
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Albert Barnes
On Luke 4:18
18th Century
Theologian
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Or, I speak by divine appointment. I am divinely inspired to speak. There can be no doubt that the pass…
AT Robertson
On Luke 4:18
Anointed me (εχρισεν με). First aorist active indicative of the verb χριω from which
Christ (Χριστος) is d…
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 4:18
19th Century
Bishop
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.—The passage that follows reproduces, with a few unimportant variations, the LXX versio…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 4:18–19
19th Century
Preacher
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 4:18
The quotation has significance both as our Lord’s statement of his call to his saving ministry and as Luke’s affirmation of this ministry as themat…
John Calvin
On Luke 4:18
16th Century
Theologian
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. These words inform us that, both in his own person and in his ministers, Christ does not act by human a…
John Gill
On Luke 4:18
17th Century
Pastor
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me
By whom is meant, the third person in the Trinity; so called, to distinguish him f…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 4:14–30
17th Century
Minister
Christ taught in their synagogues, their places of public worship, where they met to read, expound, and apply the word, to pray and praise. All the…