Luke 4:18

Jesus reads Isaiah's words of the Spirit-anointed Servant sent to bring good news to the poor, freedom to captives, and sight to the blind. He declares His messianic mission of liberation and healing.

Cross-references · 40

• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• Matt 11:5The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
• Ps 146:7–8He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
• Acts 10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
• Luke 7:22So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
• Isa 42:7to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
• John 12:46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
• Isa 29:18–19On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
• Col 1:13He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,
• 1 Jn 2:8–10Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.
• Isa 32:3Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
• Matt 4:16the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”
• Isa 42:16–18I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
• 1 Th 5:5–6For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
• Ps 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
• Matt 9:27–30As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
• Isa 35:5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
• Isa 11:2–5The 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 fear of the LORD.
• John 9:39–41Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
• Luke 6:20Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
• Mal 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
• John 3:34For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
• Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Isa 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
• Isa 50:4The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
• Eph 5:8–14For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Ps 102:20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
• Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
• Isa 42:1–4“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
• Ps 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
• Ps 34:18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
• Isa 52:2–3Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.
• Isa 45:13I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”
• Zeph 3:12But I will leave within you a meek and humble people, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
• Ps 107:10–16Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
• Isa 49:24–25Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?

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