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Now God anointed Jesus of Nazareth - rather, “Jesus of Nazareth (as the burden of that ‘published word’), how God anointed Him.”
with the Holy Ghost and with power - that is, at His baptism, thus visibly proclaiming Him MESSIAH, “the Lord’s Christ.” See Luk 4:18-21. For it is not His unction for personal holiness at His incarnation that is referred to - as many of the Fathers and some moderns take it - but His investiture with the insignia of the Messianic office, in which He presented Himself after His baptism to the acceptance of the people.
went about doing good - holding up the beneficent character of all His miracles, which was their predicted character (Isa 35:5, Isa 35:6, etc.).
healing all that were oppressed of the devil - whether in the form of demoniacal possessions, or more indirectly, as in her “whom Satan had bound with a spirit of infirmity eighteen years” (Luk 13:16); thereby showing Himself the Redeemer from all evil.
for God was with him - Thus gently does the apostle rise to the supreme dignity of Christ with which he closes, accommodating himself to his hearers.