Mazmur 79:11
Konteks79:11 Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners! 1
Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die! 2
Mazmur 102:21
Konteks102:21 so they may proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion,
and praise him 3 in Jerusalem, 4
Mazmur 146:7
Konteks146:7 vindicates the oppressed, 5
and gives food to the hungry.
The Lord releases the imprisoned.
Yesaya 61:1
Konteks61:1 The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me,
because the Lord has chosen 6 me. 7
He has commissioned 8 me to encourage 9 the poor,
to help 10 the brokenhearted,
to decree the release of captives,
and the freeing of prisoners,
Lukas 4:18
Konteks4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed 11 me to proclaim good news 12 to the poor. 13
He has sent me 14 to proclaim release 15 to the captives
and the regaining of sight 16 to the blind,
[79:11] 1 tn Heb “may the painful cry of the prisoner come before you.”
[79:11] 2 tn Heb “according to the greatness of your arm leave the sons of death.” God’s “arm” here symbolizes his strength to deliver. The verbal form הוֹתֵר (hoter) is a Hiphil imperative from יָתַר (yatar, “to remain; to be left over”). Here it must mean “to leave over; to preserve.” However, it is preferable to emend the form to הַתֵּר (hatter), a Hiphil imperative from נָתַר (natar, “be free”). The Hiphil form is used in Ps 105:20 of Pharaoh freeing Joseph from prison. The phrase “sons of death” (see also Ps 102:21) is idiomatic for those condemned to die.
[102:21] 3 tn Heb “his praise.”
[102:21] 4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[146:7] 5 tn Heb “executes justice for the oppressed.”
[61:1] 6 tn Heb “anointed,” i.e., designated to carry out an assigned task.
[61:1] 7 sn The speaker is not identified, but he is distinct from the Lord and from Zion’s suffering people. He possesses the divine spirit, is God’s spokesman, and is sent to release prisoners from bondage. The evidence suggests he is the Lord’s special servant, described earlier in the servant songs (see 42:1-4, 7; 49:2, 9; 50:4; see also 51:16).
[61:1] 8 tn Or “sent” (NAB); NCV “has appointed me.”
[61:1] 9 tn Or “proclaim good news to.”
[61:1] 10 tn Heb “to bind up [the wounds of].”
[4:18] 11 sn The phrase he has anointed me is an allusion back to Jesus’ baptism in Luke 3:21-22.
[4:18] 12 tn Grk “to evangelize,” “to preach the gospel.”
[4:18] 13 sn The poor is a key term in Luke. It refers to the pious poor and indicates Jesus’ desire to reach out to those the world tends to forget or mistreat. It is like 1:52 in force and also will be echoed in 6:20 (also 1 Pet 2:11-25). Jesus is commissioned to do this.
[4:18] 14 tc The majority of
[4:18] 15 sn The release in view here is comprehensive, both at a physical level and a spiritual one, as the entire ministry of Jesus makes clear (Luke 1:77-79; 7:47; 24:47; Acts 2:38; 5:31; 10:43).
[4:18] 16 sn Again, as with the previous phrase, regaining of sight may well mean more than simply miraculously restoring physical sight, which itself pictures a deeper reality (Luke 1:77-79; 18:35-43).
[4:18] 17 sn The essence of Jesus’ messianic work is expressed in the phrase to set free. This line from Isa 58 says that Jesus will do what the nation had failed to do. It makes the proclamation messianic, not merely prophetic, because Jesus doesn’t just proclaim the message – he brings the deliverance. The word translated set free is the same Greek word (ἄφεσις, afesi") translated release earlier in the verse.
[4:18] 18 sn Again, as with the previous phrases, oppressed may well mean more than simply political or economic oppression, but a deeper reality of oppression by sin (Luke 1:77-79; 18:35-43).