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38. Ἰησοῦν τὸν ἀπὸ Ναζαρέθ, Jesus of Nazareth. In Him was the whole accomplishment of the ῥῆμα and the λόγος. This was the entire scope of what had been preached even from the first: Jesus who had lived as a man in Nazareth, had yet been God’s Anointed Son, the promised Messiah, and shewn to be so by the mighty works which He did.
τοὺς καταδυναστευομένους κ.τ.λ., those that were oppressed of the devil. The verb, not much used in classical Greek, is very common, especially in the active voice, in the LXX. The cure of those oppressed by the devil is perhaps mentioned as shewing that the power of Jesus was to be not only over physical but over moral evil likewise, and this alone is mentioned because in the healing of the greater, the power to cure the less evil is implied.
ὅτι ὁ θεὸς ἦν μετ' αὐτοῦ, for God was with Him. Of which presence the mighty works were the σημεῖα. Cf. Nicodemus’ confession (Joh 3:2), ‘No man can do these signs that Thou doest except God be with him.’