Luke 4:19

to preach the year of the Lord pleasant, and the day of yielding again. [to preach the year of the Lord accepted, or pleasant, and the day of retribution, or yielding again.] (to proclaim the exceptional year of the Lord, yea, the Day of Reward.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

In Context

18The Spirit of the Lord is [up] on me, for which thing he anointed me; he sent me to preach [or to evangelize] to poor men, to heal contrite men in heart, and to preach remission (or a pardon) to (the) prisoners [or to (the) captives], and sight to blind men, and to deliver broken men into remission (or and to give relief to broken men);

20And when he had closed the book, he gave [it] again to the minister, and sat, (or And when he had rolled up the scroll, he gave it back to the priest, and sat down); and the eyes of all men in the synagogue were beholding into him.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:50while the years be reckoned only from the time of his (original) selling till into the year of jubilee; and while the money, for which he was sold, is reckoned by the number of years, and while the hire of an hired man is reckoned. (while the years be reckoned from the time when he first sold himself until the Jubilee Year; and while the price, for which he can be bought back, be reckoned by the wages for a hired man.)

Isaiah 61:2and preach a pleasant year to the Lord, and a day of vengeance to our God; that I should comfort all that mourn; (and proclaim a year of the Lord’s favour, and a day of the vengeance of our God; and that I will comfort all who mourn;)

Luke 19:42and said, For if thou haddest known, thou shouldest weep also; for in this [thy] day, the things be in peace to thee, but now they be hid from thine eyes. (and said, For if thou haddest only known, thou (wouldest weep) also; yea, in this thy day, for the things that would (bring) peace to thee, but now they be hidden from thine eyes.)

Matthew Henry on Luke 4:15-31

Christ in the Synagogue of Nazareth; Christ Driven from Nazareth. 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he… Read the whole commentary →

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