He said, "Most assuredly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
      [3.] The acceptable year of the Lord,Luke 4:19; Luke 4:19. He came to let the world know that the God whom they had offended was willing to be reconciled to them, and to accept of them upon new terms; that there was yet a way of making their services acceptable to him; that there is now a time of good will toward men. It alludes to the year of release, or that of jubilee, which was an acceptable year to servants, who were then set at liberty; to debtors, against whom all actions then dropped; and to those who had mortgaged their lands, for then they returned to them again. Christ came to sound the jubilee-trumpet; and blessed were they that heard the joyful sound,Psalms 89:15. It was an acceptable time, for it was a day of salvation.