Luke:4:18-19-21-22

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rwp @Luke:4:18 @{Anointed me } (\echrisen me \). First aorist active indicative of the verb \chri “\ from which {Christ } (\Christos \) is derived , the Anointed One . Isaiah is picturing the Jubilee year and the release of captives and the return from the Babylonian exile with the hope of the Messiah through it all . Jesus here applies this Messianic language to himself . "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me " as was shown at the baptism (Luke:3:21 |) where he was also "anointed " for his mission by the Father 's voice (3:22 |). {To the poor } (\pt “chois \). Jesus singles this out also as one of the items to tell John the Baptist in prison (Luke:7:22 |). Our word _Gospel_ is a translation of the Greek \Euaggelion \, and it is for the poor . {He hath sent me } (\apestalken me \). Change of tense to perfect active indicative . He is now on that mission here . Jesus is God 's _Apostle_ to men (John:17:3 |, Whom thou didst send ). {Proclaim } (\k ˆruxai \). As a herald like Noah (2Peter:2:5 |). {To the captives } (\aichmal “tois \). Prisoners of war will be released (\aichm ˆ\, a spear point , and \hal “tos \, from \haliskomai \, to be captured ). Captured by the spear point . Common word , but here only in the N .T . {Set at liberty } (\aposteilai \). First aorist active infinitive of \apostell “\. Same verb as \apestalken \, above . Brought in here from strkjv @Isaiah:58:6 |. Plummer suggests that Luke inserts it here from memory . But Jesus could easily have turned back the roll and read it so . {Them that are bruised } (\tethrausmenous \). Perfect passive participle of \thrau “\, an old verb , but here only in the N .T . It means to break in pieces broken in heart and often in body as well . One loves to think that Jesus felt it to be his mission to mend broken hearts like pieces of broken earthenware , real rescue-mission work . Jesus mends them and sets them free from their limitations . rwp @Luke:4:19 @{The acceptable year of the Lord } (\eniauton Kuriou dekton \). He does not mean that his ministry is to be only one year in length as Clement of Alexandria and Origen argued . That is to turn figures into fact . The Messianic age has come , Jesus means to say . On the first day of the year of Jubilee the priests with sound of trumpet proclaimed the blessings of that year (Leviticus:25:8-17 |). This great passage justly pictures Christ 's conception of his mission and message .

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