Isaiah 61:1

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John 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.

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

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.

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

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

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.

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.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him 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.

“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.

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

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

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach 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,

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

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

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 among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

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

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

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

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

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

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

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “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 Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

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

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

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

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

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 marvelous light.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

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

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;

John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

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

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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?

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

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

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

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

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.

The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

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

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness