To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.”
Parallel translations
- WEB and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
- KJV To preach 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.”
- 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 year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
- Isa 63:4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
- Lev 25:8–13“‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
- 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
- Luke 19:42saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
- Lev 25:50–54He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.
- Num 36:4When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
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