What does Luke 4:14 mean?
Jesus has recently endured forty days of fasting in the wilderness, including severe temptations from Satan himself (Luke 4:1–13). Shortly before then, He had been baptized by John the Baptist (Luke 3:21–22). Upon His return, Jesus sets to preaching and teaching (Luke 4:15). This results in a great deal of publicity and word-of-mouth news. Luke will detail how Jesus' preaching is rejected in His hometown (Luke 4:16, 28–29).Luke does not explicitly untangle the timeline involved. Ancient writers often grouped events by theme, rather than by time, unless the order of events was crucial to the message. Jesus' public preaching begins shortly before John the Baptist is arrested by Herod (Luke 3:18–20; Mark 1:14). This is primarily in Judea, with Jesus returning to Galilee after John's arrest (Matthew 4:12).
