Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
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Exodus 29:7Then take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.
Psalms 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
Psalms 25:9He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.
Psalms 45:7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
Psalms 68:7O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah
Psalms 102:20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 61:1
In this chapter, I. We are sure to find the grace of Christ, published by himself to a lost world in the everlasting gospel, under the type and figure of Isaiah's province, which was to foretel the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon, ver. 1-3 . II. We think we find the glories of the church of Christ, its spiritual glories, described under the type and figure of the Jews' prosperity after their return out of their captivity. 1. It is promised that they decays of the church shall be repaired, ver. 4 . 2. That… Read the whole commentary →