Luke Chapter 4 verse 17 Holy Bible
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And he opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
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And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,
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And [the] book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and having unrolled the book he found the place where it was written,
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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,
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The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
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and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - And there was delivered unto him the Book of the Prophet Esaias. In the sabbath service there were two lessons read. The first was always taken from the Pentateuch (the Law). The five books of Moses were written on parchment, (usually) between two rollers, and the day's lesson was left unrolled for the reader's convenience. The Prophets were on single rollers, no special portion being left open. It has been suggested that the great and famous Messianic passage read by our Lord was the lesson for the day. This is quite uncertain; indeed, it is more probable that Jesus, when the roll of Isaiah was handed to him by the ruler of the synagogue, specially selected the section containing this passage.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) The book of the prophet Esaias.--The Law--i.e., the Pentateuch--was commonly written on one long roll. The other books, in like manner--singly or combined, according to their length--were written on rolls of parchment, and were unrolled from the cylinder to which they were fastened. Here, it is clear, Isaiah formed a roll by itself. It is a natural inference from the fact that it was given to Him, that it contained the prophetic lesson for the day. In the calendar of modern Jews, the lessons from Isaiah run parallel with those from Deuteronomy. The chapter which He read stands as the second lesson for the day of Atonement. We cannot prove that the existing order obtained in the time of our Lord's ministry, but everything in Judaism rests mainly on old traditions; and there is therefore nothing extravagant in the belief that it was on the day of Atonement that the great Atoner thus struck what was the key-note of His whole work.When he had opened the book.--Better, when He had unrolled.
