Luke 4:36 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 4:36

All the people were overcome with amazement and asked one another, “What is this message? With authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And amazement came upon all, and they spake together, one with another, saying, What is this word? for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.

KJV

And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.

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Commentary

2 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 12 (444)

The bystanders, witnesses of such great deeds, were astonished at the power of his word. He performed his miracles, without offering up a prayer, asking no one else at all for the power to accomplish them. Since he is the living and active Word of God the Father, by whom all things exist, and in whom all things are, in his own person he crushed Satan and closed the profane mouth of impure demons.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

Bede

On the Gospel of Luke (735)

Because he commands unclean spirits with authority and power, and they depart. For holy men also can expel demons, but they do so by the word of God, whereas the Word of God itself performs miracles by its own power.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

We should notice, in this passage — the clear religious knowledge possessed by the devil and his agents. Twice in these verses we have proof of this. "I know you who you are — the holy one of God!" was the language of an demon in one case. "You are Christ the son of God," was the language of many demons in another case. Yet this knowledge was a knowledge unaccompanied by faith, or hope, or charity. Those who possessed it were miserable evil beings — full of bitter hatred both against God and man.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἐγένετο	egeneto	came	G1096 →
θάμβος	thambos	astonishment	G2285 →
ἐπὶ	epi	upon	G1909 →
πάντας,	pantas	all,	G3956 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
συνελάλουν	sunelaloun	they were speaking	G4814 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
ἀλλήλους	allēlous	one another	G240 →
λέγοντες·	legontes	saying;	G3004 →
τίς	tis	What	G5101 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
λόγος	logos	word	G3056 →
οὗτος	houtos	[is] this	G3778 →
ὅτι	hoti	for	G3754 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
ἐξουσίᾳ	exousia	authority	G1849 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
δυνάμει	dunamei	power	G1411 →
ἐπιτάσσει	epitassei	He commands	G2004 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
ἀκαθάρτοις	akathartois	unclean	G169 →
πνεύμασιν,	pneumasin	spirits,	G4151 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐξέρχονται;¶	exerchontai	they come out?	G1831 →

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
1 Peter 3:22
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
leads to
- Hebrews 9:24
  For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
- Hebrews 12:2
  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand…
- Hebrews 10:12
  But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
- Ephesians 1:20–21
  which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
- Mark 16:19
  After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
Through
Luke 4:32
They were astonished at His teaching, because His message had authority.
leads to
- Matthew 7:28–29
  When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at His teaching,
- Titus 2:15
  Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
- John 6:63
  The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.