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
He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.
Luke 7:22
Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Isaiah 29:19
The humble also will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Zephaniah 3:12
But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.
Zechariah 11:11
It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to 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, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

To heal

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 have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you," says the LORD.
Psalm 34:18
The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and 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 who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 66:2
For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be," says the LORD: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
Ezekiel 9:4
The LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst."

To preach deliverance

Psalm 102:20
to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
Psalm 107:10
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
Psalm 146:7
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.
Isaiah 42:7
to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
Isaiah 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward," says the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 49:9
saying to those who are bound, 'Come out.'; to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves.' "They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
Isaiah 52:2
Shake yourself from the dust. Arise, sit up, Jerusalem. Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.
Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Colossians 1:13
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

And

Psalm 146:8
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down. The LORD loves the righteous.
Isaiah 29:18
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Isaiah 32:3
The eyes of those who see will not be dim, 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 42:16
I will bring the blind by a way that they do not know. I will lead them in paths that they do not know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 60:1
"Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.
Malachi 4:2
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
Matthew 4:16
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."
Matthew 9:27
And as Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David."
Matthew 11:5
the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
John 9:39
Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who do not see may see; and that those who see may become blind."
John 12:46
I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
1 Thessalonians 5:5
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We do not belong to the night, nor to darkness,
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
1 John 2:8
Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

Bruised

Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
Isaiah 42:3
He won't break a bruised reed. And he won't extinguish a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
Matthew 12:20
He won't break a bruised reed. And he won't put out a smoldering wick, until he leads justice to victory.

General references

Numbers 36:4
When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will 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 have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
John 8:36
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.