Luke 4:18

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Luke 4:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,

17 the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

20 Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,

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Psalms 45:7

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

Isaiah 11:2

The 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.

Isaiah 11:3

And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

Isaiah 11:5

Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.

Isaiah 42:1

“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.

Isaiah 42:2

He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the streets.

Isaiah 42:3

A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

Isaiah 42:4

He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

Isaiah 50:4

The 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.

Isaiah 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.

Psalms 2:2

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

Psalms 2:6

“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”

Daniel 9:24

Seventy 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.

John 1:41

He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).

Acts 4:27

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

Acts 10:38

how 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 6:20

Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

Luke 7:22

So 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.

Isaiah 29:19

The humble 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 within you a meek and humble people, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.

Zechariah 11:11

It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching 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 sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

James 2:5

Listen, 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?

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 people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

Psalms 34:18

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

Psalms 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Psalms 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Isaiah 57:15

For 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.

Isaiah 66:2

Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

Ezekiel 9:4

“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”

Psalms 102:20

to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

Psalms 107:10

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

Psalms 107:11

because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

Psalms 107:12

He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

Psalms 107:13

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

Psalms 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.

Psalms 107:15

Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

Psalms 107:16

For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Psalms 146:7

He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

Isaiah 42:7

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

Isaiah 45:13

I 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.”

Isaiah 49:9

to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.

Isaiah 49:24

Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?

Isaiah 49:25

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

Isaiah 52:2

Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 52:3

For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

Zechariah 9:11

As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

Zechariah 9:12

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

Colossians 1:13

He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

Psalms 146:8

the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

Isaiah 29:18

On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Isaiah 32:3

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, 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 unstopped.

Isaiah 42:16

I 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.

Isaiah 42:17

But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

Isaiah 42:18

Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

Isaiah 60:2

For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.

Malachi 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.

Matthew 4:16

the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

Matthew 9:27

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

Matthew 9:28

After Jesus had entered the house, the blind men came to Him. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” He asked. “Yes, Lord,” they answered.

Matthew 9:29

Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”

Matthew 9:30

And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”

John 9:39

Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”

John 9:40

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”

John 9:41

“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

John 12:46

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.

Acts 26:18

to 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.’

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Ephesians 5:10

Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 5:11

Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Ephesians 5:12

For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

Ephesians 5:13

But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

Ephesians 5:14

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

1 Thessalonians 5:5

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

1 Peter 2:9

But 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.

1 John 2:8

Then 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.

1 John 2:9

If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Matthew 12:20

A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.