Luke 4:19

Amplified Bible

TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD [the day when salvation and the favor of God abound greatly]."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

King James Version (1611)
To preach the acceptable yeere of the Lord.

King James Version
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

English Standard Version
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

New American Standard Bible
TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD."

New Century Version
and to announce the time when the Lord will show his kindness." Isaiah 61:2

New American Standard Bible (1995)
TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD."

Legacy Standard Bible
To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord."

Berean Standard Bible
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

Contemporary English Version
and to say, ‘This is the year the Lord has chosen.'"

Complete Jewish Bible
to proclaim a year of the favor of Adonai ."

Darby Translation
to preach [the] acceptable year of [the] Lord.

Easy-to-Read Version
and to announce that the time has come for the Lord to show his kindness."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And that I should preache the acceptable yeere of the Lord.

George Lamsa Translation
And to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Good News Translation
and announce that the time has come when the Lord will save his people."

Lexham English Bible
to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord."

Literal Translation
"to preach an acceptable year of the Lord." Isa. 61:1, 2

American Standard Version
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

Bible in Basic English
To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure is come.

Hebrew Names Version
And to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

International Standard Version
and to announce the year of the Lord's favor."Isaiah 61:1-2; 58:6">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
And to proclaim the year of acceptance of the Lord.

Murdock Translation
and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And to preache the acceptable yere of the Lorde.

English Revised Version
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

World English Bible
And to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
To publish the acceptable year of the Lord.

Weymouth's New Testament
to proclaim the year of acceptance with the Lord."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and to preche remyssioun to prisoneris, and siyt to blynde men, and to delyuere brokun men in to remissioun; to preche the yeer of the Lord plesaunt, and the dai of yeldyng ayen.

Update Bible Version
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

New English Translation
to proclaim the year of the Lord ' s favor ."

New King James Version
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." Isaiah 61:1, 2 ">[fn]

New Living Translation
and that the time of the Lord 's favor has come."

New Life Bible
He sent Me to tell of the time when men can receive favor with the Lord."

New Revised Standard
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To proclaim the welcome year of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To preach deliverance to the captives and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of reward.

Revised Standard Version
to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and to preache the acceptable yeare of the Lorde.

Young's Literal Translation
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and to preach the acceptable yeare of the LORDE.

Mace New Testament (1729)
to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to proclaim the favourable year of the Lord."

Simplified Cowboy Version
I will announce that the time is now when the Lord will save his people."

Contextual Overview

¹⁴Then Jesus went back to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news about Him spread through the entire region. ¹⁵And He began teaching in their synagogues and was praised and glorified and honored by all. ¹⁶So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read. ¹⁷The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, ¹⁸"THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME (the Messiah), BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOOD NEWS TO THE POOR. HE HAS SENT ME TO ANNOUNCE RELEASE (pardon, forgiveness) TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED (downtrodden, bruised, crushed by tragedy), ¹⁹TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD [the day when salvation and the favor of God abound greatly]." ²⁰Then He rolled up the scroll [having stopped in the middle of the verse], gave it back to the attendant and sat down [to teach]; and the eyes of all those in the synagogue were [attentively] fixed on Him. ²¹He began speaking to them: "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing and in your presence." ²²And [as He continued on] they all were speaking well of Him, and were in awe and were wondering about the words of grace which were coming from His lips; and they were saying, "Is this not Joseph's son?" ²³So He said to them, "You will no doubt quote this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal Yourself! Whatever [miracles] that we heard were done [by You] in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown as well.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 19:42, Leviticus 25:8-13, Leviticus 25:50-54, Numbers 36:4, Isaiah 61:2, Isaiah 63:4, 2 Corinthians 6:1

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 15:1 - General Isaiah 58:5 - an acceptable Isaiah 61:1 - Spirit Luke 5:32 - General 2 Corinthians 6:2 - a time 2 Timothy 4:2 - Preach

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
Now the LORD God said, "It is not good (beneficial) for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper [one who balances him—a counterpart who is] suitable and complementary for him."

Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 4:4
But Abel brought [an offering of] the [finest] firstborn of his flock and the fat portions. And the LORD had respect (regard) for Abel and for his offering;

Genesis 4:6
And the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you so angry? And why do you look annoyed?

Matthew 19:8
He said to them, "Because your hearts were hard and stubborn Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. The time which he willed and fixed for the redemption of his people, and in which he showed his goodwill and pleasure unto sinful men, in the gift of his Son to them, and for them; and which, as the Arabic and Syriac versions render it, was a time "acceptable to the Lord": the sufferings of Christ were according to his will; his sacrifice was of a sweet smelling savour to him; his righteousness he was well pleased with; and the satisfaction and atonement for sin he made was a plenary and complete one: all Christ did, and suffered, were grateful to God, because hereby his perfections were glorified, his purposes, counsel, and covenant were accomplished, and his people saved. The Persic version renders it, "to preach the law acceptable to God", neither agreeable to the original text, nor its sense; for Christ was sent to preach the Gospel, and not the law. In the Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions is added, "and the day of vengeance", out of the prophecy in Isaiah 61:2 but is not in any of the copies, or other versions. Our Lord did not read through all the three verses in the prophet, as it might be thought he would, and which was agreeable to the Jewish canon c:

"he that reads in the law may not read less than three verses, and he may not read to an interpreter more than one verse, and in a prophet three; and if those three are three sections, they read everyone; they skip in a prophet, but they do not skip in the law.''

This last our Lord did, though he did not strictly attend to the former. Indeed, their rule, as elsewhere d given, obliged to read one and twenty verses; but this was not always observed; for

"if on a sabbath day there was an interpreter, or a preacher, they read in a prophet three verses, or five, or seven, and were not solicitous about twenty and one e''

c Misn. Megilia, c. 4. sect. 4. Massechet Sopherim, c. 11. sect. 1. d Piske Harosh Megilla, c. 3. art. 6. e Massechet Sopherim, c. 12. sect. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To peach the acceptable year of the Lord - The time when God is willing to accept of people, or to receive sinners coming to him. The gospel assures us that the guilty “may” return, and that God will graciously receive them. There is, perhaps, here, an allusion to the year of jubilee - the fiftieth year, when the trumpet was blown, and through the whole land proclamation was made of the liberty of Hebrew slaves, of the remission of debts, and of the restoration of possessions to their original families, Leviticus 25:8-13. The phrase “the acceptable year” means the time when it would be acceptable to God to proclaim such a message, or agreeable to him - to wit, under the gospel.