Luke 4:34

34 "Let us alone! ¹What business do we have with each other, Jesus of ²Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are-³the Holy One of God!"

Luke 4:34 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 4:34

Saying, let us alone
Not that there were more spirits in him than one, as the whole account shows; but he includes the rest of the devils in that country; (See Gill on Mark 1:24).

Luke 4:34 In-Context

32 and they were amazed at His teaching, for His message was with authority.

33 In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

34 "Let us alone! What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are-the Holy One of God!"

35 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet and come out of him!" And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, he came out of him without doing him any harm.

36 And amazement came upon them all, and they began talking with one another saying, "What is this message? For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and they come out."

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 8:29
• 2. Mark 1:24
• 3. Mark 1:24

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "What to us and to you" (a Heb idiom)
• [b] Lit "the Nazarene"