Luke 4:18

World Messianic Bible British Edition

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

2 Chronicles 34:27

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD.

Psalm 102:20

to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,

Psalm 147:3

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

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,

Psalm 2:6

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

Psalm 34:18

The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Psalm 45:7

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Psalm 51:17

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

Isaiah 32:3

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Isaiah 35:5

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

Isaiah 42:7

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Isaiah 45:13

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Isaiah 49:9

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Isaiah 57:15

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “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.

Isaiah 59:21

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “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 offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from now on and forever.”

Isaiah 61:1

The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Isaiah 66:2

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says the LORD: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Ezekiel 9:4

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 over all the abominations that are done within it.”

Daniel 9:24

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

Zephaniah 3:12

But I will leave amongst you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the LORD’s name.

Zechariah 11:11

It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the LORD’s word.

Malachi 4:2

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.

Matthew 11:5

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.

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. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

Matthew 12:20

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

Matthew 4:16

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.”

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Luke 4:17

The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the scroll, and found the place where it was written,

Luke 6:20

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for God’s Kingdom is yours.

Luke 7:22

Yeshua answered them, “Go and tell Yochanan 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.

John 1:41

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Anointed One).

John 12:46

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

John 3:34

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Yeshua of Nazareth 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.

Acts 26:18

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 amongst those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Acts 4:26

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers plot together, against the Lord, and against his Messiah.’

Acts 4:27

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Yeshua, whom you anointed,

Colossians 1:13

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

James 2:5

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?

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.