Luke 4:21 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 4:21

and He began by saying, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he began to say unto them, To-day hath this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

KJV

And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

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Commentary

2 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 12 (444)

These words having been read to the assembled people, all eyes focused on Jesus, wondering perhaps how he could read without having been taught. The Israelites used to say that the prophecies concerning Christ were fulfilled, either in the persons of some of their more glorious kings or at least in the holy prophets. They did not correctly understand what was written about him, so they missed the true direction and traveled down another path. He carefully guards against error by saying, "This day is this prophecy fulfilled in your ears," that they might not again misinterpret the present prophecy.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This was enough to introduce a great deal: This day is this scripture fulfilled. Note, [1.] All the scriptures of the Old Testament that were to be fulfilled in the Messiah had their full accomplishment in the Lord Jesus, which abundantly proves that this was he that should come. [2.] In the providences of God, it is fit to observe the fulfilling of the scriptures.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

This scripture - This writing, or this part of the Scriptures. Fulfilled - It is coming to pass; the thing originally intended by it is about to be accomplished. In your ears - In your “hearing;” or you hear, in my preaching, the fulfillment of this prophecy. It is probable that he said much “more” than is here recorded, but Luke has preserved only the “substance” of his discourse. This was the “amount” or “sum”” of his sermon, or his explanation of the passage, that it was now receiving its accomplishment.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἤρξατο	ērxato	He began	G757 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
λέγειν	legein	to say	G3004 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	them	G846 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
σήμερον	sēmeron	Today	G4594 →
πεπλήρωται	peplērōtai	has been fulfilled	G4137 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
γραφὴ	graphē	Scripture	G1124 →
αὕτη	hautē	this	G3778 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
ὠσὶν	ōsin	hearing	G3775 →
ὑμῶν.	humōn	of you.	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
leads to
- Isaiah 6:9–10
  And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
- Ezekiel 12:2
  “Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
- 2 Corinthians 3:14
  But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
- Luke 8:10
  He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing,…
- Acts 28:25–27
  They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
Through
Acts 3:18
But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
leads to
- Isaiah 53:1–12
  Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
- Acts 26:22–23
  But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
- Acts 2:23
  He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.