Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 10:38

38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost, and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil: for God was with him.

It was usual to anoint their Kings, Priests, and Prophets, unto all which Offices Christ was anointed by his Father; hence called Christ, as in the Old Testament the Messiah.

The Apostle is not ashamed of this name, tho given to our Saviour by way of contempt; he gloried in the cross of Christ.

Christ was indued with the Almighty Spirit of God, and with the power of it.

All the miracles our blessed Saviour wrought, were works of mercy, for the benefit and relief of those upon whom he wrought them; he could have wrought miracles to destroy and ruine such as would not believe in him, which he was often provoked unto; (nay, his Apostles would have had him but to permit them by fire from Heaven to destroy the Samaritans, Luke 9.54. and he would no[illegible: 1 letter].)

The deliverances our Saviour so often wrought upon such as were possessed of Devils, was to shew unto them that he was come to destroy the works of the Devil, and to cast him out of the Souls of men, who were Spiritually possessed by him, which also our Saviour did, so that it was a happy calamity for them, which brought them to Christ.

God was with our Saviour, 1. By his might and Power doing such miracles. 2. In his extraordinary love to him, Matth. 3.17. and always hearing of him, Iohn 11.42. and also, 3. God was with Christ, [non-Latin text not transcribed], in the fulness of the Godhead, Colos. 2.11.