Bible Chapter Summary
Luke 4 Summary
Jesus Inaugural Sermon at Nazareth
Jesus reads Isaiah 61 in the Nazareth synagogue: the Spirit of the Lord is on me, to proclaim good news to the poor, freedom for the prisoners, sight to the blind, to set the oppressed free. Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. The crowd turns on him and drives him to the cliff; he walks through them.
Key themes
Key verses
Luke 4:18-19
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”
Luke 4:21
“And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
Luke 4:30
“But he passing through the midst of them went his way,”
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