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

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God belongs to you.

So he answered them, "Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.

I will leave in your midst a humble and meek group of people, and they will find safety in the Lord's presence.

So it was annulled that very day, and then the most afflicted of the flock who kept faith with me knew that that was the word of the Lord.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

To heal

You displayed a sensitive spirit and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words concerning this place and its residents. You humbled yourself before me, tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,' says the Lord.

The Lord is near the brokenhearted; he delivers those who are discouraged.

The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit -- O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject.

He heals the brokenhearted, and bandages their wounds.

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

My hand made them; that is how they came to be," says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.

The Lord said to him, "Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it."

To preach deliverance

in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners, and to set free those condemned to die,

They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,

vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned.

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

It is me -- I stir him up and commission him; I will make all his ways level. He will rebuild my city; he will send my exiled people home, but not for a price or a bribe," says the Lord who commands armies.

You will say to the prisoners, 'Come out,' and to those who are in dark dungeons, 'Emerge.' They will graze beside the roads; on all the slopes they will find pasture.

Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

And

The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. The Lord loves the godly.

At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.

I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

"Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the Lord shines on you!

But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned."

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!"

The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light --

For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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.

Bruised

And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."

A crushed reed he will not break, a dim wick he will not extinguish; he will faithfully make just decrees.

He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick, until he brings justice to victory.

General references

And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe."

At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.