Isaiah 61 (WK) - Bible Truth Library

to proclaim.The proclaiming of perfect liberty to the bound, and the year of acceptance with Jehovah, is a manifest allusion to the proclaiming of the year of the jubilee by sound of trumpet; and our Saviour, by applying this text to himself, plainly declares the typical design of that institution.

Isa. 42:7• ⁷to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house. (Isa. 42:7)

;

Isa. 49:9,24‑25• ⁹saying to the prisoners, Go forth, to them that [are] in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures [shall be] on all bare heights.
²⁴Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
²⁵For thus saith Jehovah, Even the captive of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: and I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. (Isa. 49:9,24‑25)

;

Psa. 102:20• ²⁰To hear the groaning of the prisoner,{HR}To loose the sons of death, (Psa. 102:20)

;

Jer. 34:8• ⁸{i}The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them:{/i} (Jer. 34:8)

;

Zech. 9:11‑12• ¹¹{i}As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I will send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.{/i}
¹²Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that I will render double unto thee; (Zech. 9:11‑12)

;

John 8:32‑36• ³²and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
³³They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone: how sayest thou, Ye shall become free?
³⁴Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practiceth sin is a bondman of sin.
³⁵Now the bondman abideth not in the house forever; the son abideth forever.
³⁶If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. (John 8:32‑36)

;

Acts 26:18• ¹⁸to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness unto light and the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among those that are sanctified by faith that is in me. (Acts 26:18)

;

Rom. 6:16‑22• ¹⁶Know ye not that to whom ye are yielding yourselves as bondservants for obedience, ye are bondservants to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness?
¹⁷But thanks to God that ye were bondservants of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart the form of teaching unto which ye were delivered;
¹⁸and having been freed from sin ye became bondservants to righteousness.
¹⁹I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh; for as ye yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.
²⁰For when ye were bondservants of sin, ye were free in respect to righteousness.
²¹What fruit then had you at that time? [Things] of which ye are now ashamed, for the end of those things [is] death.
²²But now freed from sin, and made bondservants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life eternal. (Rom. 6:16‑22)

;

2 Tim. 2:25‑26• ²⁵in meekness instructing those that oppose, if haply God may give them repentance unto acknowledgment of truth,
²⁶and they may wake up out of the snare of the devil, taken as they are by him, for his will. (2 Tim. 2:25‑26)

• The first three verses, forming a paragraph by themselves, instruct us further how all will be brought to pass. Here we have the passage that our Lord found in the synagogue at Nazareth, as recorded in Luke 4, and which He read, stopping in the middle of verse 2 because there the prediction of His first advent ends. (“Isaiah 61” by F.B. Hole)

• The words that were read by our Lord all indicate grace, without any allusion to the law of Moses. (“Isaiah 61” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound;

W. Kelly Translation

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah [is] upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and opening of the prison to the bound;