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 Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Matt 11:5the 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.
• Ps 146:7–8who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
• Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
• Luke 7:22Jesus 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.
• Acts 26:18to 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.’
• Isa 42:7to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
• John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
• 1 Pet 2:9But 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:
• Isa 29:18–19In 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.
• Col 1:13who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
• 1 Jn 2:8–10Again, 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.
• Isa 32:3The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
• Matt 4:16the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
• Isa 42:16–18I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
• 1 Th 5:5–6You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,
• Ps 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
• Matt 9:27–30As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!”
• Isa 35:5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
• Isa 11:2–5Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
• John 9:39–41Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
• Luke 6:20He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.
• Mal 4:2But 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.
• John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
• 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 Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t 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?
• Isa 50:4The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
• Eph 5:8–14For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Ps 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
• Isa 57:15For 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.
• Isa 42:1–4“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights — I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
• Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
• Ps 34:18Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
• Isa 52:2–3Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
• Isa 45:13I 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 Yahweh of Armies.
• Zeph 3:12But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Ps 107:10–16Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
• Isa 49:24–25Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?

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