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"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, Because he anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim release to the captives, Recovering of sight to the blind, To deliver those who are crushed,
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Christ's Mission Statement
Commentators view this verse as Jesus's personal declaration of His life's purpose. By reading from Isaiah, He defines His entire ministry: to bring good news and spiritual freedom. As one scholar notes, this passage served as the "text of Christ's whole ministry," summarizing everything He came to accomplish for humanity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Or, I speak by divine appointment. I am divinely inspired to speak. There can be no doubt that the pass…
Anointed me (εχρισεν με). First aorist active indicative of the verb χριω from which
Christ (Χριστος) is d…
19th Century
Anglican
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.—The passage that follows reproduces, with a few unimportant variations, the LXX versio…
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Baptist
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 …
The quotation has significance both as our Lord’s statement of his call to his saving ministry and as Luke’s affirmation of this ministry as themat…
16th Century
Protestant
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. These words inform us that, both in his own person and in his ministers, Christ does not act by human a…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me By whom is meant, the third person in the Trinity; so called, to distinguish him f…
Christ taught in their synagogues, their places of public worship, where they met to read, expound, and apply the word, to pray and praise. All the…
