Sunday, November 4, 2012

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me..." Luke 4:18-30 (AeP T21 Version)

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all those who were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say to them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

And all witnessed this, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son? And he said to them, You may very truly tell me this proverb, Doctor, heal yourself. Whatever we have heard that was done in Capernaum, do also here in your country.

 And he said, Truly I say to you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; But to none of them was Elijah sent, except to Zarephath, a city of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman of Syria. And as many as were in the synagogue, when they heard him, were furious, And they stood up, and threw him out of the city, and led him to the top of the hill on which their city had been built, so they could push him over it. But he walked right through the middle of them and went away."

 - Luke 4:18-30 in the AeP Tyndale21 Version of the Gospels