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Luke 4:21

New Living Translation

Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”

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This fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah that says, ‘When you hear what I say, you will not understand. When you see what I do, you will not comprehend.

He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently.

Everyone spoke well of him and was amazed by the gracious words that came from his lips. “How can this be?” they asked. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

“You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!

But God was fulfilling what all the prophets had foretold about the Messiah—that he must suffer these things.