To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Parallel translations
- WEB and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
- BSB to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
- NKJV To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
- NASB To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.”
- NLT and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.”
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Quick answer
Jesus proclaims 'the acceptable year of the Lord'—the time of God's favor and deliverance. In Him the long-awaited age of grace arrives.
Overview
The 'acceptable year' echoes the Jubilee, when debts were forgiven and captives freed, now fulfilled spiritually in Christ. Jesus announces that the season of God's saving favor has dawned in His own coming. Notably, He stops before Isaiah's mention of God's vengeance, signaling that this is first the day of salvation.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 61:2To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
- Isa 63:4For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
- Lev 25:8–13And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
- 2 Cor 6:1We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
- Luke 19:42Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
- Lev 25:50–54And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
- Num 36:4And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
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