Luke 4:38-44
Jesus heals and delivers with authority, yet He presses forward to preach the kingdom of God.
38 He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.
39 He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
41 Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
42 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.
43 But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”
44 He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
Jesus heals and delivers with authority, yet he presses forward to preach the kingdom of God.
Luke shows Jesus’ authority extending from synagogue deliverance into household healing, widespread mercy, demonic silencing, and a clarified mission to preach the good news of the kingdom of God to other towns.
After teaching with authority and casting out an unclean spirit in the Capernaum synagogue, Jesus enters Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law is suffering from a high fever. Jesus rebukes the fever, heals her, and she immediately serves them. At sunset, many sick and demon-oppressed people are brought to him. Jesus heals them and casts out demons, but he will not permit the demons to speak because they know he is the Messiah.
The Spirit-Anointed Son Tested, Rejected, and Proclaiming the Kingdom
Jesus, the Spirit-anointed and Scripture-obedient Son, overcomes temptation, announces God's fulfilled salvation, confronts unbelief, displays authority over evil and sickness, and presses forward in the mission of proclaiming the kingdom.