Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit and led by the Spirit when He went into His wilderness trial and temptation. He comes out of it walking in the power of the Spirit. We don’t have initial reports of miracles. What we read in Luke is that Jesus is glorified by all for His teaching.

He’s traveling to synagogues and teaching and being praised for it until He comes to His hometown, where He had been brought up. They knew Him as a kid.

He uses this day to announce that He was the one fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy.

They were marveling at Him, in a good way. That is, until He kept speaking. He points out their questioning, knowing Him as Joseph’s boy. Jesus points out how God’s prophets are accepted except in their hometowns. Jesus then goes on to point out how God took care of a widow outside of Israel and healed a leper outside of Israel instead of those within. Now they are mad. God loves Israel. Jesus was just telling the truth about what the Bible teaches. They are still mad. They have their own view of God and this guy telling them something different was enough for them to decide He was a false prophet and should die.

People are fickle. They’ll love you one minute and hate you the next. Don’t entrust yourself to man. Love God and love others, but trust yourself to God. Find your approval and praise and acceptance and belonging in Christ alone, not from a crowd.

Other places the people marvel at his teaching because He spoke with authority. He then demonstrated it by casting out demons.

Jesus heals the mother of Peter’s wife. She is healed immediately and gets up and begins serving Jesus and the disciples. That’s the response when you have received from Jesus. You serve Him. No matter what the gift is you received from Him, you offer it back to Him. It’s from Him and for Him. All of it. She received health and strength and used it to serve Jesus.

People were brought to Jesus who needed healing. He laid hands on every one of them and healed them. Could He have just waved his hand over the crowd and said, “You are all healed. Go home!” Of course, but He loved them. He acknowledged the pain of each one and met each individual need. Pray individually and specifically. We don’t have any Biblical precedent to just pray that everyone with cancer be healed, for instance.

Luke 4 ends with Jesus telling why He was sent: to preach the good news of the kingdom to the towns of Israel. The kingdom is God’s rule and He is the king.