Luke 4: 16-21

The author Luke, launces Jesus’ ministry off and portrays his first teaching moment in the Synagogue of Nazareth. These six verses of scripture interact on a crucial level within the scope of the author's theology and implication of the central theme of the book. Luke 4:16-21 provides the purpose and understanding of the salvation that Jesus has come to give. King Jesus is launching his earthly ministry right here declaring what will be taking place through the realized eschatology of the Kingdom of God. Through this passage, Jesus is proclaiming the programmatic mission of his salvation by revealing what he came down to earth to accomplish right now.

Context

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The account that Luke records are a double quotation from Isaiah 61:1-2 and part of Isaiah 58:6. Isaiah 61 is one of the most widely recognized passages in scripture to the year of jubilee. Watts, however, suggest different that FILL IN THE BLANK, fits better than the year of jubilee. The quotation from Isaiah 61 reflects in a sense, the ordination of the Spirit. In the Old Testament, anointed typically referred to the anointing with oil. However, in this passage, it is not the case, it is a special anointing of the spirit. Tying it back to Jesus in Luke, it refers to the baptism when the Spirit descended upon Him in 3:22. Luke is careful and articulate with the wording he uses within the quotation of the Isaiah work. He omits a section of the passage from 61 and 58 from his account. Omitting a few passages, to Hun, clearly shows that Luke used the Septuagint passage of Isaiah instead of the original Hebrew. Conzelmann adds that the Lukan omission is commonly recognized as a “softening effect.” If Luke 4:18, as Conzelleman described, the programmatic mission of Jesus than we see a clear set of “mission statements” coming from this inspired Lukan passage. First, to preach the good news to the poor. Looking at the meaning and purpose of the whole of Luke it is seen to be written for the hurting and the sick, for the less fortunate, and the needy. In a twenty-first century world, the word poor is commonly seen as a simple term for individuals in poor economic standing. In biblical terms, it may happen to be someone who is lost and without a life-changing relationship with Jesus. Green shows us how this thought is simply lacking with the true meaning when Isaiah refers to “the poor.” He continues his thought that one must