Verse 18
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, Because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim release to the captives, Recovering of sight to the blind, To deliver those who are crushed,
Referenced Verses
- Isa 61:1 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; 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;
- Matt 11:5 : 5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
- Ps 146:7-8 : 7 Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners. 8 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
- Acts 10:38 : 38 even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
- Luke 7:22 : 22 Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
- 1 John 2:8-9 : 8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines. 9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
- Isa 42:16-18 : 16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods. 18 Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
- Isa 32:3 : 3 The eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.
- Isa 35:5 : 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
- Isa 42:7 : 7 to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
- Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
- John 12:46 : 46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
- Isa 49:9 : 9 saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
- Isa 29:18-19 : 18 In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness. 19 The humble also shall increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
- Matt 4:16 : 16 The people who sat in darkness saw a great light, To those who sat in the region and shadow of death, To them light has dawned."
- Isa 52:2-3 : 2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money.
- Matt 9:27-30 : 27 As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!" 28 When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They told him, "Yes, Lord." 29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." 30 Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly charged them, saying, "See that no one knows about this."
- Col 1:13 : 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
- 1 Thess 5:5-6 : 5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness, 6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.
- 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- Luke 6:20 : 20 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, For yours is the Kingdom of God.
- Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
- Eph 5:8-9 : 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, 10 proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord. 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. 12 For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. 13 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that is revealed is light. 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
- John 1:41 : 41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ{"Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean "Anointed One".}).
- John 3:34 : 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
- John 9:39-41 : 39 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind." 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?" 41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
- Matt 5:3 : 3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Isa 59:21-60:2 : 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever. 1 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you. 2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
- Matt 12:20 : 20 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a smoking flax, Until he leads justice to victory.
- Isa 66:2 : 2 For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
- Ezek 9:4 : 4 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.
- Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Zeph 3:12 : 12 But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.
- Zech 9:11-12 : 11 As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water. 12 Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
- Zech 11:11 : 11 It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh.
- Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
- Isa 49:24-25 : 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? 25 But thus says Yahweh, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
- Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
- Isa 45:13 : 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Hosts.
- Ps 147:3 : 3 He heals the broken in heart, And binds up their wounds.
- Isa 11:2-5 : 2 The Spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. 3 His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked. 5 Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.
- Gen 3:15 : 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
- 2 Chr 34:27 : 27 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.
- Ps 2:2 : 2 The kings of the earth take a stand, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Yahweh, and against his anointed,{The word "anointed" is the same as the word for "Messiah" or "Christ"} saying,
- Ps 2:6 : 6 "Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion."
- Ps 34:18 : 18 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves those who have a crushed spirit.
- Ps 45:7 : 7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
- Ps 51:17 : 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
- Ps 102:20 : 20 To hear the groans of the prisoner; To free those who are condemned to death;
- Ps 107:10-16 : 10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron, 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, And condemned the counsel of the Most High. 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help. 13 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses. 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their bonds in sunder. 15 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, For his wonderful works to the children of men! 16 For he has broken the gates of brass, And cut through bars of iron.
- Acts 4:27 : 27 For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together