Welcome to part two with Dr. Jan Martin, Matthew chapter 4 and Luke chapters 4 and 5.

Let's jump over to Luke chapter 4 just so we can have a look. We've already looked at the temptations.

You'll see those at the beginning of Luke, but when he comes out of the temptations, we have this return.

You look at verse 14 of Luke chapter 4, we'll pick it up.

Jesus returns in the power of the Spirit, but that was the whole point he went into the wilderness was to come out with this crested spiritual power and he does.

He's going to go public now. He's going to go announce his ministry officially to people now and he does it from his hometown.

So he goes back to Nazareth where he brought up and I love verse 16 where he goes and does something in this phrase as his custom was.

He did this all the time.

Yeah, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, first of all, so that tells you something about his obedience to the laws of things of going to where he needs to be when he needs to be there and then he stood up for to read.

Now, whether his custom was to go there and read every time he went there, I don't know, but very possibly he was someone who would be handed a scroll. That's what you do in their synagogues.

If you can read it, you're handed a scroll and you stand up and read it and then explain it to the group.

And so it sounds like he maybe did that frequently.

Kind of like a gospel doctrine slash fast and testimony meeting together.

Yeah, they seem to at least be comfortable enough within being there, first of all, and then handing him scrolls to read.

Maybe he's been reading them in the past and this is not his first time reading, but he stands up to read and then we get this book from the prophet Isaiah.

For those of you wondering about the word is sious in verse 17, that is the Greek version of Isaiah's name.

So you're not confused like who's this prophet is a sious will profit Isaiah.

So it opens up the scroll we have scrolls and this is one of the fun things about reading a KJV New Testament, for example, they often anglicize concepts opening the book.

They don't have books in those days. They have scrolls.

And so you just need to be aware he's got a scroll, not a book that we're familiar with and he unrolls the scroll and will be reading that allowed.

So these powerful verses of Isaiah to deal with. So there we are.

That's interesting with the KJV. They're like, he unroll the scroll. Well, he opened a book.

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