Luke 4:17

Luke 4:17

And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

1. “And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias…”

a. The Life And Times Of Jesus The Messiah, Alfred Edersheim. “There is no reason to disturb the almost traditional idea, that Jesus himself read the concluding portion from the Prophets, or the so-called Haphtarah. The whole narrative seems to imply this. Similarly, it is most likely that the Haphtarah for that day was taken from the prophecies of Isaiah, and that it included the passage quoted by the Evangelist as read by the Lord Jesus. We know that the rolls of which the Law was written were distinct from those of the Prophets, at least the Greater, were also written on separate scrolls. In this instance we are expressly told, that the minister ‘delivered unto Him the book of the prophet Esaias,’ we doubt not, for the Haphtarah, and that, ‘when He had unrolled the book,’ He ‘found’ the place from which the Evangelist made the quotation.”

2. “…And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written…”

a. opened [380 * anaptusso] [Zodhiates: To roll or fold back, unroll, as a volume or roll of a book.]

b. The verse says he “found the place where it was written”. The flow of the passage implies as has already been mentioned that Jesus was directed by the Jewish tradition of the day to the Isaiah passage.