Luke 4:18 Cross References - ISV

¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has anointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to set oppressed people free,

¹⁵ “I’ll place hostility between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. He’ll strike you on the head, and you’ll strike him on the heel.”

²⁷ “Because your heart was sensitive, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he had to say about this place and its inhabitants—indeed, because you humbled yourself before me, tore your clothes, and cried out to me, I have heard you,” declares the LORD.

² As the kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers conspire together against the LORD and his anointed one, they say,

⁶ “I have set my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”

¹⁸ The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed.

⁷ You love justice and hate wickedness. That is why God, even your God, has anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness.

¹⁷ True sacrifice to God is a broken spirit. A broken and chastened heart, God, you will not despise.

²⁰ to listen to the groans of prisoners, to set free those condemned to death,

¹⁰ Some sat in deepest darkness, shackled with cruel iron, ¹¹ because they had rebelled against the command of God, despising the advice of the Most High. ¹² He humbled them through suffering, as they stumbled without a helper. ¹³ Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he delivered them from their distress. ¹⁴ And he brought them out from darkness and the shadow of death, shattering their chains. ¹⁵ Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love, and for his awesome deeds to mankind. ¹⁶ For he shattered bronze gates and cut through iron bars.

⁷ who brings justice for the oppressed, and who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners; ⁸ the LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are weighed down. The LORD loves the righteous.

³ He heals the brokenhearted, binding up their injuries.

² The Spirit of the LORD will rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD. ³ His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He won’t judge by what his eyes see, nor decide disputes by what his ears hear, ⁴ but with righteousness he will judge the needy, and decide with equity for earth’s poor. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and the wicked will be killed with the breath of his lips. ⁵ Righteousness will be the sash around his loins, and faithfulness the belt around his waist.”

¹⁸ On that day the deaf will hear the words of a scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see. ¹⁹ The humble will again experience joy in the LORD, and the poorest people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

³ Then the eyes of those who can see won’t turn away, and the ears of those who can hear will listen.

⁵ “Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf unblocked;

¹ The Servant of the LORD “Here is my servant, whom I support, my chosen one, in whom I delight. I’ve placed my Spirit upon him; and he’ll deliver his justice throughout the world. ² He won’t shout, or raise his voice, or make it heard in the street. ³ A crushed reed he will not break, and a fading candle he won’t snuff out. He’ll bring forth justice for the truth. ⁴ And he won’t grow faint or be crushed until he establishes justice on the mainland, and the coastlands take ownership of his Law.”

⁷ to open blind eyes and to bring out those who are bound from their cells, and those sitting in darkness from prison.

¹⁶ I’ll help the blind walk, even on a road they do not know; I’ll guide them in directions they do not know. I’ll turn the dark places into light in front of them, and the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I won’t abandon them. ¹⁷ Those who trust in carved idols will turn back and be completely disappointed, along with those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”
¹⁸ God Rebukes Israel“Listen, you deaf people, and look up, you blind people, so you may see!

¹³ God will Bless Cyrus“I have aroused him in righteousness, and I’ll make all his pathways smooth. It is he who will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price nor reward, ” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

⁹ saying to captives, ‘Come out!’ and to those who are in darkness, ‘Be free!’ “They will feed on all the mountains, and their pasture will be on all the barren hills.

²⁴ “Can they seize plunder from warriors, or can the captives of tyrants be rescued? ²⁵ But this is what the LORD says: “He will seize even the warriors’ plunder, and the captives of tyrants will be rescued. I myself will quarrel with those who have a quarrel with you, and I myself will save your children.

⁴ The Servant’s Obedience“The Lord GOD has given me a learned tongue, so that I may know how to sustain the weary with words. And morning after morning he wakens, and he wakens my ear to listen like those who are being taught.

² Shake yourself from the dust and arise, and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem! Loosen the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
³ For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and you’ll be redeemed without money.”

¹⁵ “For this is what the high and lofty One says, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “He lives in the height and in holiness, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

²¹ “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “And my Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, won’t depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children, from now on and forever.”

¹ Good News of Deliverance “The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed and to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness for the prisoners;

² All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came into being,” declares the LORD. “But this is the one to whom I will look favorably: to the one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my message.

⁴ The LORD told him, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of everyone who sighs and moans over all of the loathsome things that are happening in it.”

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

¹² I will keep a humble and gentle people among you, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.

¹¹ Now concerning you and my blood covenant with you, I have liberated your prisoners from a waterless pit. ¹² Return to your fortress, you prisoners who have hope. Even today I am telling you: In return I will repay you double.

¹¹ It was broken at that time so the oppressed of the flock who were observing me would know that it had been a message from the LORD.

² But the Sun of Righteousness will arise with healing in its light for those who fear my name. You will go out and leap like calves released from their stalls

¹⁶ The people living in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land and shadow of death, a light has risen.”

³ The Blessed Attitudes
“How blessed are those who are destitute in spirit, because the kingdom from heaven belongs to them!

²⁷ Jesus Heals Two Blind MenAs Jesus was traveling on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” ²⁸ When he had gone into the house, the blind men came to him.
Jesus asked them, “Do you believe I can do this?”
They told him, “Yes, Lord!”
²⁹ Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith, let it be done for you!” ³⁰ And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly told them, “See to it that nobody knows about this.”

⁵ the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the destitute hear the good news.

²⁰ He will not snap off a broken reed or snuff out a smoldering wick until he has brought justice through to victory.

²⁰ Jesus Pronounces Blessings and Judgment
Then Jesus looked at his disciples and said, “How blessed are you who are destitute, because the kingdom of God is yours!

²² So he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have observed and heard: the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear again, the dead are raised, and the destitute hear the good news.

⁴¹ The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, “We have found the Anointed One!” (which is translated “Messiah”).

³⁴ The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

³⁹ Then Jesus said, “I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind.”
⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, “We aren’t blind, too, are we?”
⁴¹ Jesus told them, “If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, ‘We see,’ your sin still exists.”

⁴⁶ I’ve come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won’t remain in the darkness.

²⁷ For in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate actually met together with unbelievers and the people of Israel to oppose your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

³⁸ God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, he went around doing good and healing everyone who was oppressed by the devil.

¹⁸ You will help them understand and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan’s control to God, so that their sins will be forgiven and they will receive a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

⁸ For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light, ⁹ for the fruit that the light produces consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth. ¹⁰ Determine what pleases the Lord, ¹¹ and have nothing to do with the unfruitful actions that darkness produces. Instead, expose them for what they are. ¹² For it is shameful even to mention what is done by these disobedient people in secret. ¹³ But everything that is exposed to the light becomes visible, ¹⁴ for the light is making everything visible. That is why it says, “Wake up, sleeper! Arise from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.’’

¹³ God has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of the Son whom he loves,

⁵ For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to darkness. ⁶ Therefore, let’s not fall asleep like others do, but let’s stay awake and be sober.

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not?

⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

⁸ On the other hand, I am writing to you a new commandment that is truly in him and in you. For the darkness is fading away, and the true light is already shining.
⁹ The person who says that he is in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. ¹⁰ The person who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no reason for him to stumble.