Luke 4:20 After reading Jesus sat down [closed]

Question

In Luke 4:20 'Jesus sat down'...

Did He sit down in the chair reserved for the Messiah in the synagogue?

Answer 1

In Luke 4:20, the "sitting down" is in the synagogue preacher's chair. Note the comments of Ellicott:

And sat down.—This conveys to us the idea of falling back to a place of comparative obscurity among the congregation. To the Jew it implied just the opposite. The chair near the place from which the lesson was read was the pulpit of the Rabbi, and to sit down in that chair (as in Matthew 5:1; Matthew 23:2) was an assumption by our Lord, apparently for the first time in that synagogue, of the preacher’s function. This led to the eager, fixed gaze of wonder which the next clause speaks of.

Benson offers similar remarks:

And sat down — The Jewish doctors, to show their reverence for the Scriptures, always stood when they read them, but when they taught the people they sat down. See Matthew 23:2. Thus we here find our Lord sitting down in the synagogue to preach, after he had read the passage in the prophet, which he made the subject of his discourse.