Luke 4:18

Rejected At Nazareth

¹⁷ And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the book and found the place where it was written, ¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives,
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set free those who are oppressed,
¹⁹ To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.”

Deliverance to the Captives

Good News

Heal the Brokenhearted

Holy Spirit

Preach Deliverance

Bring Good News

Preach the Gospel

Proclaim Liberty

Recovery of Sight to the Blind

Set at Liberty

Spirit of the Lord

Bring Good News

Good Tidings

Preach The Good News

Proclaim Freedom

Proclaim Release

Release To The Captives

Preach Good Tidings

Luke

Messiah

Satan

Sin

Matthew 11:5

the blind receive 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.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
Because the Lord has anointed me
To bring good news to the afflicted;
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to captives
And freedom to prisoners;

Acts 10:38

You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Psalm 146:7-8

Who executes justice for the oppressed;
Who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets the prisoners free.

Isaiah 42:7

To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

Luke 6:20

And turning His gaze toward His disciples, He began to say, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

Luke 7:22

And He answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

John 3:34

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

2 Chronicles 34:27

Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares the Lord.

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth take their stand
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,

Psalm 2:6

“But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

Psalm 34:18

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Psalm 45:7

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Psalm 102:20

To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To set free those who were doomed to death,

Psalm 107:10-16

There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Prisoners in misery and chains,

Psalm 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted
And binds up their wounds.

Isaiah 11:2-5

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

Isaiah 29:18-19

On that day the deaf will hear words of a book,
And out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Isaiah 32:3

Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded,
And the ears of those who hear will listen.

Isaiah 35:5

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened
And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Isaiah 42:1-4

“Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold;
My chosen one in whom My soul delights.
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 42:16-18

“I will lead the blind by a way they do not know,
In paths they do not know I will guide them.
I will make darkness into light before them
And rugged places into plains.
These are the things I will do,
And I will not leave them undone.”

Isaiah 45:13

“I have aroused him in righteousness
And I will make all his ways smooth;
He will build My city and will let My exiles go free,
Without any payment or reward,” says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 49:9

Saying to those who are bound, ‘Go forth,’
To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
Along the roads they will feed,
And their pasture will be on all bare heights.

Isaiah 49:24-25

“Can the prey be taken from the mighty man,
Or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?”

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of disciples,
That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

Isaiah 52:2-3

Shake yourself from the dust, rise up,
O captive Jerusalem;
Loose yourself from the chains around your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and exalted One
Who lives forever, whose name is Holy,
“I dwell on a high and holy place,
And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit
In order to revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 59:21-2

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the Lord, “from now and forever.”

Isaiah 66:2

“For My hand made all these things,
Thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord.
“But to this one I will look,
To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.

Ezekiel 9:4

The Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst.”

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

Zephaniah 3:12

“But I will leave among you
A humble and lowly people,
And they will take refuge in the name of the Lord.

Zechariah 9:11-12

As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,
I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

Zechariah 11:11

So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord.

Malachi 4:2

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.

Matthew 4:16

“The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light,
And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death,
Upon them a Light dawned.”

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 9:27-30

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

Matthew 12:20

“A battered reed He will not break off,
And a smoldering wick He will not put out,
Until He leads justice to victory.

John 1:41

He *found first his own brother Simon and *said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ).

John 9:39-41

And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.”

John 12:46

I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

Acts 4:27

For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,

Ephesians 5:8-14

for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light

Colossians 1:13

For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

1 Thessalonians 5:5-6

for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

1 John 2:8-10

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.