Rejected at Nazareth

16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up,[a] and according to his custom[b] he entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath and stood up to read. 17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll he found the place where it was written,

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
    because of which he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
    He has sent me
to proclaim release to the captives,
    and recovery of sight to the blind,
to send out in freedom those who are oppressed,

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:16 Literally “he was having been brought up”
  2. Luke 4:16 Literally “what he was accustomed to for him”