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Lexham English Bible

Luke 4:19

to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord."

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gospel;   Instruction;   Jesus, the Christ;   Liberty;   Nazareth;   Quotations and Allusions;   Synagogue;   Word of God;   Scofield Reference Index - Satan;   Scripture;   The Topic Concordance - Anointing;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assurance;   Feast of Jubilee, the;   Prophecies Respecting Christ;   Years;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fulfilled;   Jubilee;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Education;   Freedom;   Gospel;   Jesus christ;   Nazareth;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Demon;   Disease;   Ethics;   Evangelize, Evangelism;   Favor;   Gospel;   Homosexuality;   Jubilee, Year of;   Life;   Messiah;   Mission;   Synagogue;   Time;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Scripture;   Worship of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Book;   Capernaum;   Isaiah, the Book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Jubilee;   Nazareth;   Synagogue;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acceptance;   Christ, Christology;   Disciples;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Liberty, Liberation;   Luke, Gospel of;   Messiah;   Nazareth, Nazarene;   Persecution in the Bible;   Preaching in the Bible;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Servant of the Lord, the;   Synagogue;   Writing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gospels;   Holy Spirit;   Isaiah, Book of;   Jesus Christ;   Law;   Messiah;   Synagogue;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acceptance;   Acceptance (2);   Atonement (2);   Boyhood ;   Comfort (2);   Dates (2);   Discourse;   Fulfilment;   Gentiles;   Gentleness (2);   Grace ;   Guide;   Incarnation (2);   Influence;   Inspiration;   Isaiah;   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Love (2);   Luke, Gospel According to;   Manliness;   Missions;   Popularity ;   Quotations (2);   Reconciliation;   Redemption (2);   Sabbath ;   Sight;   Sin (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Acceptable Year of the Lord;   Nazareth ;   New Testament;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Begotten;   Sight;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Old Testament;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Book;   Synagogue;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Accept;   Christ, Offices of;   Good;   Oded;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 7;   Every Day Light - Devotion for December 7;  

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

14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news about him went out throughout all the surrounding region. 15 And he began to teach in their synagogues, and was praised by all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and according to his custom he entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath and stood up to read. 17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll he found the place where it was written, 18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because of which he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send out in freedom those who are oppressed, 19 to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord." 20 And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were looking intently at him. 21 And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." 22 And they were all speaking well of him, and were astonished at the gracious words that were coming out of his mouth. And they were saying, "Is this man not the son of Joseph?" 23 And he said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable: ‘Physician, heal yourself!' Whatever we have heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also!"

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
Then Yahweh God said, "it is not good that the man is alone. I will make for him a helper as his counterpart."
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.
Genesis 4:4
and Abel also brought an offering from the choicest firstlings of his flock. And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering,
Genesis 4:6
And Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why is your face fallen?
Matthew 19:8
He said to them, "Moses, with reference to your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not like this.

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.


 
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