Luke 4:17 Meaning and Explanation
“And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,”
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Read Full Chapter →Handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, Jesus unrolls it and finds the place he means to read.
What Does Luke 4:17 Mean?
The attendant delivers the scroll of Isaiah, Esaias in its Greek form, and Jesus unrolls it deliberately until he finds a particular passage, the words we know as Isaiah 61. The reading is no accident of the calendar; he chooses his own commissioning text.
He found the place. Centuries-old words had waited on that scroll for the day when the One they describe would stand up and read them aloud in his hometown. Jesus reads Israel's Scriptures as the script of his own mission, and after the resurrection he will teach his disciples to read them the same way, beginning at Moses and all the prophets. Scripture is not merely behind him; it is about him.
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What does Luke 4:17 mean?
Handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, Jesus unrolls it and finds the place he means to read.