Lu 4:1
4:1 And {1} Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from
    Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

 (1) Christ, being carried away (as it were out of the world)
     into the desert, comes suddenly as if from heaven, having
     fasted for forty days and overcoming Satan three times, and
     thus begins his office.

Lu 4:3
4:3 {2} And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God,
    command this stone that it be made bread.

 (2) Christ, being tempted by Satan, first to distrust in God,
     secondly to the desire of riches and honour, and lastly to
     a vain confidence in himself, overcomes him three times by
     the word of God.

Lu 4:6
4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this {a} power will I give
    thee, and the glory of them: for that is {b} delivered unto
    me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

    (a) By this word "power" are meant the kingdoms themselves
        which have the power: and so this is said using the
        figure of speech metonymy.
    (b) This is surely so, for he is prince of the world, but
        not absolutely, and is the sovereign of it only by
        permission and request, and therefore he does
        not truly say that he can give it to whom he will.

Lu 4:7
4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be {c} thine.

    (c) Out of a high place, from which would be seen a good and
        first-class country, and thus the devil showed him all
        countries.

Lu 4:16
4:16 {3} 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.

 (3) Who Christ is and for what reason he came he shows from the
     prophet Isaiah.

Lu 4:17
4:17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet
     Esaias.  And when he had {d} opened the book, he found the
     place where it was written,

     (d) Their books in those days were rolled up as scrolls
         upon a ruler: and so Christ unrolled or unfolded it,
         which is here called "opened".

Lu 4:22
4:22 {4} And all {e} bare him witness, and {f} wondered at the
     {g} gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And
     they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

 (4) Familiarity causes Christ to be condemned and therefore he
     often goes to strangers.
     (e) Approved those things which he spoke with common
         consent and voice: for this word "witness" signifies in
         this place (and many others) "to allow and approve a
         thing with open confession".
     (f) Present at this meeting of the scriptures were not only
         the learned, but also the common people: and besides that,
         their mother tongue was used, for how else could the
         people have wondered?  Paul appointed the same
         manner for doing things in the Church at Corinth;
         1Co 14:1-40.
     (g) Words full of the mighty power of God, which appeared
         in all his doings, and as well allured men marvellously
         unto him; see Ps 45:2, "grace is poured into thy
         lips".

Lu 4:25
4:25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in
     the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years
     and six months, when great famine was throughout all the
     {h} land;

     (h) Land of Israel; \\see Geneva (C) "Mr 15:33"\\.

Lu 4:28
4:28 {5} And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these
     things, were filled with wrath,

 (5) The more sharply the world is rebuked the more it openly
     rages: but the life of the godly is not always subject to
     the desires of the wicked.

Lu 4:34
4:34 {6} Saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee,
     [thou] Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I
     know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.

 (6) Christ astonishes not only men, be they ever so stupid, but
     even the demons as well, whether or not they want to be.

Lu 4:38
4:38 {7} And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into
     Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a
     great fever; and they besought him for her.

 (7) In that Christ heals the diseases of the body with only his
     word, he proves that he is God Almighty, sent for man's
     salvation.

Lu 4:41
4:41 {8} And devils also came out of many, crying out, and
     saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking
     [them] suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he
     was Christ.

 (8) Satan, who is a continual enemy of the truth, ought not to
     be heard, not even when he speaks the truth.

Lu 4:42
4:42 {9} And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert
     place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and
     stayed him, that he should not depart from them.

 (9) No zealous response on the part of the people ought to
     hinder us in the race that God has appointed unto us.