Luke 4:23 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 4:23

Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he said unto them, Doubtless ye will say unto me this parable, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in thine own country.

KJV

And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

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Commentary

2 voices

Tertullian

Against Marcion Book IV (220)

But Christ will be (the Christ) of the prophets, wheresoever He is found in accordance with the prophets. And yet even at Nazareth He is not remarked as having preached anything new, whilst in another verse He is said to have been rejected by reason of a simple proverb.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Why I do not work miracles here, rather than at Capernaum? It is because of your unbelief. Nor is it any new thing for me to be despised in my own country.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Physician, heal thyself - This proverb was probably in common use at that time. The meaning is this: Suppose that a man should attempt to heal another when he was himself diseased in the same manner; it would be natural to ask him first to cure himself, and thus to render it manifest that he was worthy of confidence. The connection of this proverb, here, is this: “You profess to be the Messiah. You have performed miracles at Capernaum. You profess to be able to deliver us from our maladies, our sins, our afflictions.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
εἶπεν	eipen	He said	G2036 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
αὐτούς·	autous	them;	G846 →
πάντως	pantōs	Surely	G3843 →
ἐρεῖτέ	ereite	you will say	G4483 →
μοι	moi	to Me	G3165 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
παραβολὴν	parabolēn	proverb	G3850 →
ταύτην·	tautēn	this;	G3778 →
ἰατρέ,	iatre	Physician	G2395 →
θεράπευσον	therapeuson	do heal	G2323 →
σεαυτόν·	seauton	yourself!	G4771 →
ὅσα	hosa	As much as	G3745 →
ἠκούσαμεν	ēkousamen	we have heard	G191 →
γενόμενα	genomena	has been done	G1096 →
εἰς	eis	in	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
Καφαρναούμ,	Kapharnaoum	Capernaum,	G2584 →
ποίησον	poiēson	do perform	G4160 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ὧδε	hōde	here	G5602 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
πατρίδι	patridi	hometown	G3968 →
σου.¶	sou	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 walk4

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
Mark 6:1
Jesus went on from there and came to His hometown, accompanied by His disciples.
leads to
- Luke 4:16–30
  Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,
- Matthew 13:54–58
  Coming to His hometown, He taught the people in their synagogue, and they were astonished. “Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?” they asked.
- Matthew 2:23
  and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
- Matthew 13:4
  And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.