Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Bible References

To preach

Luke 6:20
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be you poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 7:22
Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things you have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Isaiah 29:19
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Zephaniah 3:12
I will also leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
Zechariah 11:11
And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Matthew 5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 11:5
The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
James 2:5
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

To heal

2 Chronicles 34:27
Because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbled yourself before me, and did tear your clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard you also, says the LORD.
Psalm 34:18
The LORD is near unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Psalm 147:3
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 66:2
For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have been, says the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.
Ezekiel 9:4
And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in its midst.

To preach deliverance

Psalm 102:20
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Psalm 107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons;
Psalm 146:7
Who executes justice for the oppressed: who gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners:
Isaiah 42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Isaiah 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall set free my exiles, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 49:9
That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
Isaiah 52:2
Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit in which is no water.
Colossians 1:13
Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

And

Psalm 146:8
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous:
Isaiah 29:18
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
Isaiah 32:3
And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall listen.
Isaiah 35:5
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Isaiah 42:16
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Isaiah 60:1
Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
Malachi 4:2
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up like calves of the stall.
Matthew 4:16
The people who sat in darkness saw great light; and to them who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up.
Matthew 9:27
And when Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Son of David, have mercy on us.
Matthew 11:5
The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
John 9:39
And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they who see not might see; and that they who see might be made blind.
John 12:46
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me should not abide in darkness.
Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
1 Thessalonians 5:5
You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
1 John 2:8
Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.

Bruised

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
Isaiah 42:3
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth justice unto truth.
Matthew 12:20
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he sends forth justice unto victory.

General references

Numbers 36:4
And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe to which they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Deuteronomy 15:1
At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
Luke 5:32
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
John 8:36
If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.