Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Luke 4:19

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

KJV

κηρύξαι αἰχμαλώτοις ἄφεσιν καὶ τυφλοῖς ἀνάβλεψιν, ἀποστεῖλαι τεθραυσμένους ἐν ἀφέσει, κηρύξαι ἐνιαυτὸν κυρίου δεκτόν.

Greek NT

prædicare captivis remissionem, et cæcis visum, dimittere confractos in remissionem, prædicare annum Domini acceptum et diem retributionis.

Vulgate

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

ASV

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.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἰχμάλωτος
aichmalotos
noun · 1×
δεκτός
dektos
adjective · 5×
θραύω
thrauo
verb · 1×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κηρύσσω
kerusso
verb · 61×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
τυφλός
tuphlos
adjective · 50×
ἀνάβλεψις
anablepsis
noun · 1×
ἀποστέλλω
apostello
verb · 131×
ἄφεσις
aphesis
noun · 17×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐνιαυτός
eniautos
noun · 14×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Isa 61:2 · echo
    "To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;"
    Isaiah: the year of the Lord's favor — Jesus stops reading before judgment

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§436The word "Christ" comes from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Messiah, which means "anointed". It became the name proper to Jesus only because he accomplished perfectly the divine mission that "Christ" signifies. In effect, in Israel those consecrated to God for a mission that he gave were anointed in his name. This was the case for kings, for priests and, in rare instances,…
§714This is why Christ inaugurates the proclamation of the Good News by making his own the following passage from Isaiah:84 The Spirit of the LORD God is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim…
§1168Beginning with the Easter Triduum as its source of light, the new age of the Resurrection fills the whole liturgical year with its brilliance. Gradually, on either side of this source, the year is transfigured by the liturgy. It really is a "year of the Lord's favor."42 The economy of salvation is at work within the framework of time, but since its fulfillment in the Passover o…
…and 1 more from this source.
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. Christ himself read these words in the synagogue at Nazareth and declared "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." Calvin shows that the anointing of the Messiah by the Spirit is the foundation of his prophetic, priestly, and kingly office. He comes to bind…

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 6:1 — We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
  • 2Cor 6:2 — (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
  • Isa 58:5 — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acce
  • Isa 61:2 — To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
  • Isa 61:2 — To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
  • Isa 63:4 — For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
  • Lev 25:8 — And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
  • Lev 25:50 — And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time
  • Luke 19:42 — Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.