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42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them. 43 And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent. 44 And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee. (Luke 4:42-44 KJV)
William Burkitt’s Commentary
Observe here, 1. The great work and business of our Saviour’s life are to preach the gospel. I must preach the kingdom of God for therefore came I forth. Preaching was Christ’s great work, it is undoubtedly his ministers’. Christ omitted some opportunities of working miracles so that he might preach to other cities: this was his great work.
Observe, 2. It being Christ’s great design to plant and propagate the gospel, he would not confine his ministry to one particular place, not to the great city of Capernaum, but resolves to preach the word in smaller towns and villages; leaving his ministers herein an instructive example, to be as willing to preach the gospel in the smallest villages, as in the largest and most populous cities, if God calls us there. Let the place be never so obscure and mean, and the congregation never so small and little, if God sends us thither, the greatest of us must not think it beneath us to go and instruct a handful of people.