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.