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Isaiah 61 Summary

Isaiah 61 announces the Anointed One's mission — good news to the poor, freedom to captives, the year of the LORD's favor — the very passage Jesus read in Nazareth and said 'today is fulfilled.'

The Servant says the Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon him, anointing him to bring good news to the afflicted, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to captives, and the favorable year of the LORD. It is a charter of compassion and rescue.

Luke 4 records Jesus reading this passage in the synagogue, sitting down, and declaring it fulfilled in him. The promises of restoration — garments of praise, oaks of righteousness, an everlasting covenant — belong to those who come to him.

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Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,” Isaiah 61:2 “to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,”
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