Luke 4:18

American King James Version (1999)

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Cross References

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Matthew 11:5

The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Acts 10:38

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Luke 7:22

Then Jesus answering said to them, Go your way, and tell John what things you have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.

Acts 26:18

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Isaiah 42:7

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

John 12:46

I am come a light into the world, that whoever believes on me should not abide in darkness.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;

Colossians 1:13

Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Matthew 4:16

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Isaiah 32:3

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall listen.

Psalm 147:3

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Isaiah 35:5

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Matthew 5:3

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 6:20

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be you poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

Malachi 4:2

But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

John 3:34

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure to him.

Isaiah 59:21

As for me, this is my covenant with them, said the LORD; My spirit that 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, said the LORD, from now on and for ever.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned.

Psalm 102:20

To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isaiah 49:9

That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Isaiah 45:13

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, said the LORD of hosts.

Psalm 34:18

The LORD is near to them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.

Psalm 2:6

Yet have I set my king on my holy hill of Zion.

Zephaniah 3:12

I will also leave in the middle of you an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

John 1:41

He first finds his own brother Simon, and said to him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

Matthew 12:20

A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment to victory.

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Zechariah 11:11

And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited on me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

Ezekiel 9:4

And the LORD said to him, Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the middle thereof.

Isaiah 66:2

For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have been, said the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

Acts 4:27

For of a truth against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

Psalm 45:7

You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

2 Chronicles 34:27

Because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbled yourself before me, and did rend your clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard you also, said the LORD.

Matthew 12:18

Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit on him, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.

Luke 4:17

And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

Acts 4:26

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.