Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 4:19
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
19. the acceptable year ] The primary allusion is to the year of Jubilee, Lev 25:8-10; but this was only a type of the true Jubilee of Christ’s kingdom. Many of the Fathers, with most mistaken literalness, inferred from this verse that our Lord’s ministry only lasted a year, and the notion acquired more credence from the extraordinary brightness of His first, or Galilaean, year of ministry. This view has been powerfully supported by Mr Browne in his Ordo Saeclorum, but is quite untenable (Joh 2:13; Joh 6:4; Joh 11:55).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
To peach the acceptable year of the Lord – The time when God is willing to accept of people, or to receive sinners coming to him. The gospel assures us that the guilty may return, and that God will graciously receive them. There is, perhaps, here, an allusion to the year of jubilee – the fiftieth year, when the trumpet was blown, and through the whole land proclamation was made of the liberty of Hebrew slaves, of the remission of debts, and of the restoration of possessions to their original families, Lev 25:8-13. The phrase the acceptable year means the time when it would be acceptable to God to proclaim such a message, or agreeable to him – to wit, under the gospel.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
19. acceptable yearanallusion to the jubilee year (Le25:10), a year of universal release for person andproperty. (See also Isa 49:8;2Co 6:2.) As the maladies underwhich humanity groans are here set forth under the names of poverty,broken-heartedness, bondage, blindness, bruisedness (orcrushedness), so, as the glorious HEALERof all these maladies, Christ announces Himself in the act of readingit, stopping the quotation just before it comes to “the day ofvengeance,” which was only to come on the rejecters of Hismessage (Joh 3:17). The firstwords, “THE SPIRITof the LORD is upon ME,”have been noted since the days of the Church Fathers, as anillustrious example of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost beingexhibited as in distinct yet harmonious action in the scheme ofsalvation.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. The time which he willed and fixed for the redemption of his people, and in which he showed his goodwill and pleasure unto sinful men, in the gift of his Son to them, and for them; and which, as the Arabic and Syriac versions render it, was a time “acceptable to the Lord”: the sufferings of Christ were according to his will; his sacrifice was of a sweet smelling savour to him; his righteousness he was well pleased with; and the satisfaction and atonement for sin he made was a plenary and complete one: all Christ did, and suffered, were grateful to God, because hereby his perfections were glorified, his purposes, counsel, and covenant were accomplished, and his people saved. The Persic version renders it, “to preach the law acceptable to God”, neither agreeable to the original text, nor its sense; for Christ was sent to preach the Gospel, and not the law. In the Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions is added, “and the day of vengeance”, out of the prophecy in Isa 61:2 but is not in any of the copies, or other versions. Our Lord did not read through all the three verses in the prophet, as it might be thought he would, and which was agreeable to the Jewish canon c:
“he that reads in the law may not read less than three verses, and he may not read to an interpreter more than one verse, and in a prophet three; and if those three are three sections, they read everyone; they skip in a prophet, but they do not skip in the law.”
This last our Lord did, though he did not strictly attend to the former. Indeed, their rule, as elsewhere d given, obliged to read one and twenty verses; but this was not always observed; for
“if on a sabbath day there was an interpreter, or a preacher, they read in a prophet three verses, or five, or seven, and were not solicitous about twenty and one e”
c Misn. Megilia, c. 4. sect. 4. Massechet Sopherim, c. 11. sect. 1. d Piske Harosh Megilla, c. 3. art. 6. e Massechet Sopherim, c. 12. sect. 7.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The acceptable year of the Lord ( ). He does not mean that his ministry is to be only one year in length as Clement of Alexandria and Origen argued. That is to turn figures into fact. The Messianic age has come, Jesus means to say. On the first day of the year of Jubilee the priests with sound of trumpet proclaimed the blessings of that year (Le 25:8-17). This great passage justly pictures Christ’s conception of his mission and message.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
To preach (Rev., proclaim). the acceptable year of the Lord. As on the first day of the year of Jubilee, when the priests went through the land proclaiming, with sound of trumpet, the blessings of the opening year (Lev 25:8 – 17). Note verse 10, where liberty is to be proclaimed to all in that year. Wyc., the year of the Lord pleasant. A literal interpretation of the word year gave rise among some of the Christian fathers to the theory that our Lord ‘s ministry lasted but a single year.
Fuente: Vincent’s Word Studies in the New Testament
1) “To preach,” (keruksai) “To herald with zeal,” to “preach with fervor,” to proclaim, Luk 19:10; Joh 10:10; the Jubilee, when all slave persons and property became free, was realized in the coming of Jesus to set men free, Lev 25:10; Gal 5:13; Joh 8:32; Joh 8:36.
2) “The acceptable year of the Lord.” (eniauon kuriou dekton) “An acceptable year of the Lord,” 2Co 6:2. And here the quotation of Isa 61:2, is cut, leaving fulfillment of His coming “in vengeance”, (just retribution) till His second coming, 2Th 1:7-9.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
19. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord Many think that here the prophet makes an allusion to the Jubilee, and I have no objection to that view. But it is proper to observe, that he purposely anticipates a doubt, which might disturb and shake weak minds, while the Lord held them in suspense, by delaying so long the promised salvation. He therefore makes the time of redemption to depend on the purpose, or good pleasure, of God. “In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee.” Paul calls it the fullness of the time, (Gal 4:4,) that believers may learn not to indulge in excessive curiosity, but to acquiesce in the will of God, — and that we may rest satisfied with the conviction, that salvation was manifested in Christ, at the time which seemed good in the sight of God.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(19) The acceptable year of the Lord.The primary reference was to the year of Jubilee, when land that had been mortgaged returned to its owner, and debts were forgiven, and Israelite slaves released (Lev. 25:9-10). It was to our Lord, as it had been to Isaiah, the type of the year of the divine kingdom. A somewhat slavish literalism, which the study of St. Johns Gospel (Luke 2, 5, 6, 7, 12) would have dispelled in an hour, led some of the Fathers to infer from this that our Lords ministry lasted but for a single year.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
19. The acceptable year of the Lord The year of jubilee, which by the Mosaic law returned every fiftieth year. In this year the debtors and bondsmen were to be released, possessions to be restored, and oppression to cease. To this the gospel day is compared as being acceptable to the Lord. The very unsound inference was anciently drawn, from this term year, that the duration of our Lord’s ministry was but a single year.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Ver. 19. The acceptable year of the Lord ] A joyful jubilee. Let us not stand out the time, lest we be bored in the ear by the devil.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
19. . . . ] See Lev 25:8-17 , where in Luk 4:10 we find that liberty was proclaimed to all in the land in the year of jubilee (in the prophecy, = LXX). No countenance is given by this expression to the extraordinary inference from it of some of the Fathers (Clement of Alex., Origen), that the Lord’s public ministry lasted only a year, and something over . Compare Joh 2:13 ; Joh 6:4 ; Joh 13:1 .
Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament
the acceptable year = the welcome year. Either the Jubilee year (Lev 26:8-17), or on account of the Lord’s ministry commencing then.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
19. . . .] See Lev 25:8-17, where in Luk 4:10 we find that liberty was proclaimed to all in the land in the year of jubilee (in the prophecy, = LXX). No countenance is given by this expression to the extraordinary inference from it of some of the Fathers (Clement of Alex., Origen), that the Lords public ministry lasted only a year, and something over. Compare Joh 2:13; Joh 6:4; Joh 13:1.
Fuente: The Greek Testament
acceptable A comparison with the passage quoted, Isa 61:1; Isa 61:2 affords an instance of the exquisite accuracy of Scripture. Jesus stopped at, “The acceptable year of the Lord,” which is connected with the first advent and the dispensation of grace Gen 3:15. (See Scofield “Act 1:11”), “the day of vengeance of our God” belongs to the second advent, Deu 30:3. See Scofield “Act 1:11”, and judgment.
Lord Jehovah. Isa 61:1; Isa 61:2.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Luk 19:42, Lev 25:8-13, Lev 25:50-54, Num 36:4, Isa 61:2, Isa 63:4, 2Co 6:1
Reciprocal: Deu 15:1 – General Isa 58:5 – an acceptable Isa 61:1 – Spirit Luk 5:32 – General 2Co 6:2 – a time 2Ti 4:2 – Preach
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Acceptable year denotes one in which the most desirable and beneficial experiences would be offered to all who would accept them.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Luk 4:19. The acceptable year of the Lord. The year, or definite appointed period, when the Lord is gracious, not without a reference to the year of jubilee, which also pointed to the Messiahs coming and kingdom. It proves nothing as to the length of our Lords ministry.