Week 10 - Read­ing 1 

“The Lord’s Spir­it has come to me,
because he has cho­sen me.”

Jesus returned to Galilee with the pow­er of the Spir­it.  News about him spread every­where.  He taught in the Jew­ish meet­ing places, and every­one praised him.

Jesus went back to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and as usu­al he went to the meet­ing place on the Sab­bath.  When he stood up to read from the Scrip­tures, he was giv­en the book of Isa­iah the prophet.  He opened it and read,

“The Lord’s Spir­it has come to me, because he has cho­sen me to tell the good news to the poor.  The Lord has sent me to announce free­dom for pris­on­ers, to give sight to the blind, to free every­one who suf­fers, and to say, ‘This is the year the Lord has chosen.’ ”

Jesus closed the book, then hand­ed it back to the man in charge and sat down.  Every­one in the meet­ing place looked straight at Jesus.

 

Luke 4:14-20 Con­tem­po­rary Eng­lish Ver­sion The Holy Bible (New York , NY: Amer­i­can Bible Soci­ety 1995)