Luke 4:19

Luke 4:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
• New International Version (NIV)to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
• New King James Version (NKJV)To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Context of Luke 4:19

17They gave him the scroll that had the messages of God's prophet Isaiah. Jesus opened the scroll. He found the place where Isaiah wrote: 18‘The Spirit of the Lord God is on me. He has chosen me to tell good news to poor people. He has sent me to tell people who are in prison, “You can go free!” I must say to people that cannot see, “See again!” I must cause people that are like slaves to become free. I must tell everyone, “This is the year when God will be kind to his people.” ’ 20When Jesus had read this to the people, he closed the scroll. He gave it back to an officer of the meeting place. Then he sat down to teach the people. Everyone in the meeting place was looking carefully at him. 21Jesus said to them, ‘Today this message has become true. It has happened while you were listening.’

Luke 4:19 word by word

κηρύξαι ἐνιαυτὸν κυρίου δεκτόν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• To preachκηρύσσωkērussō · to preachG2784
• the acceptableδεκτόςdektos · acceptableG1184
• yearἐνιαυτόςeniautos · yearG1763
• of the Lordκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962

Cross-references for Luke 4:19

• Luke 19:42He said, ‘You need to know what would really help you. Then you could have lived without trouble. But now, you are unable to understand properly.
• Leviticus 25:8The people must count seven lots of Sabbath years. That is 49 years.
• Numbers 36:4Even when the Jubilee year comes, the land will not return to our tribe. It will belong to the tribes of the men that Zelophehad's daughters have married.’
• Isaiah 61:2He has sent me to say, ‘This is the year when the Lord will be kind to his people.’ It is the time when our God will punish our enemies. He has sent me to comfort people who are weeping because they are sad.
• Isaiah 63:4I decided that it was time to punish my enemies. Then I would save my people from their power.
• 2 Corinthians 6:1So, as we work together with God, we tell you to be careful. Remember that God has been very kind and he has forgiven you. Do not waste that!

Commentaries on Luke 4:19

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19To peach the acceptable year of the Lord - The time when God is willing to accept of people, or to receive sinners coming to him. The gospel assures us that the guilty “may” return, and that God will graciously receive them. There is, perhaps, here, an allusion to the year of jubilee - the fiftieth year, when the trumpet was blown, and through the whole land proclamation was made of the liberty of Hebrew slaves, of the remission of debts, and of the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-30Verses 14-30 Christ taught in their synagogues, their places of public worship, where they met to read, expound, and apply the word, to pray and praise. All the gifts and graces of the Spirit were upon him and on him, without measure. By Christ, sinners may be loosed from the bonds of guilt, and by his Spirit and grace from the bondage of corruption. He came by the word of his gospel, to bring light to those that sat in the dark, and by the power of his…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-19the year of the Lord’s favor: This refers to the Year of Jubilee (Leviticus 25:8–55). During this time, people forgave debts, freed slaves, and returned land to its original owners. In Isaiah 61, the Year of Jubilee is a metaphor for God’s salvation.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 18-1918-19. To have fixed on any passage announcing His sufferings (as Is 53:1-12), would have been unsuitable at that early stage of His ministry. But He selects a passage announcing the sublime object of His whole mission, its divine character, and His special endowments for it; expressed in the first person, and so singularly adapted to the first opening of the mouth in His prophetic capacity, that it seems as if made expressly for this occasion. It is from…Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 4:19

• Gospel
• Instruction
• Jesus, the Christ
• Liberty
• Nazareth
• Quotations and Allusions
• Synagogue
• Word of God

In the dictionaries

• Book
• Capernaum
• Close
• Deliverance
• Gracious
• Isaiah, The Book of
• Keep
• Rebuke
• Temptation
• Accept; Acceptable; Acceptation

Commentaries on Luke 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings