54. And when he was come into his own country--that is,
Nazareth; as is plain from
Mr 6:1.
See on
Joh 4:43,
where also the same phrase occurs. This, according to the majority of
Harmonists, was the second of two visits which our Lord
paid to Nazareth during His public ministry; but in our view it was His
first and only visit to it. See on
Mt 4:13;
and for the reasons, see
Lu 4:16-30.
Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty
works?--"these miracles." These surely are not like the questions
of people who had asked precisely the same questions before, who from
astonishment had proceeded to rage, and in their rage had hurried Him
out of the synagogue, and away to the brow of the hill whereon their
city was built, to thrust Him down headlong, and who had been foiled
even in that object by His passing through the midst of them, and going
His way. But see on
Lu 4:16,
&c.
JFB.
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