His hometown rejects Him
16 So He came to Natsareth, where He had been brought up; as was His custom He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, so unrolling the scroll He found the place where it was written:
18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because He has anointed me to evangelize poor people.
He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,Perhaps 1.5% of the Greek manuscripts, of objectively inferior quality, omit "to heal the brokenhearted" (as in NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc.).
to proclaim release to captives
and recovery of sight to blind people,
to send those who are oppressed out in freedom,
19 to proclaim the Lord’s favorable year."Jesus interrupted the reading of Isaiah 61:2 at a coma—‘the great parenthesis’. The part that He read pertained to His first coming, but "the day of vengeance of our God" pertains to His second coming—the ‘parenthesis’ is closing in on 2,000 years.
"Today this Scripture is fulfilled"
20 Then, having rolled up the scroll and returned it to the attendant, He sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on Him, 21 and He began by saying to them, "Today, this Scripture in your ears has been fulfilled."