Luke 4:18

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Luke 4:18

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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,

To preach

To heal

Ezekiel 9:4

To preach deliverance

And

Bruised

Genesis 3:15

Isaiah 42:3

Matthew 12:20

General references

Bible References

To preach

And turning his eyes to his disciples he said, Happy are you who are poor: for the kingdom of God is yours.

And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.

And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.

Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

To heal

And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.

The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

He makes the broken-hearted well, and puts oil on their wounds.

For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.

To preach deliverance

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.

Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.

Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.

And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

And

The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;

And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.

And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.

Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open.

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.

But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

And when Jesus went on from there, two blind men came after him, crying out, Have mercy on us, you Son of David.

And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.

I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

Bruised

And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.

The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.

General references

And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel, their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of the tribe of our fathers.

At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.

I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.