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In the synagogue at Nazareth Jesus reads Isaiah's proclamation of release and says, "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." He stops before Isaiah's next words, "the day of vengeance of our God." Luke's Greek for deliverance and liberty is aphesis, the word the Septuagint used for the Jubilee.
KJV (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, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”
How it was checked
- EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: ADDED 2026-09-30; a release
- Letter eraTHE PAYMENT c. 30 AD
- SourcesThe passage: Luke 4:16–21; Isaiah 61:1–2.