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Isaiah 61:1

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Spirit: Isaiah 11:2-5, Isaiah 42:1, Isaiah 59:21; Matthew 3:16; Luke 4:18-19; John 1:32-33, John 3:34

anointed: Psalms 2:6 *marg. Psalms 45:7; Daniel 9:24; John 1:41; Acts 4:27, Acts 10:38; Hebrews 1:9

to preach: Isaiah 52:9; Psalms 22:26, Psalms 25:9, Psalms 69:32, Psalms 149:4; Matthew 5:3-5, Matthew 11:5; Luke 7:22

to bind: Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 66:2; Psalms 34:18, Psalms 51:17, Psalms 147:3; Hosea 6:1; 2 Corinthians 7:6

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. Isaiah 42:7, Isaiah 49:9, Isaiah 49:24-25; Psalms 102:20; Jeremiah 34:8; Zechariah 9:11-12; John 8:32-36; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:16-22, Romans 7:23-25; 2 Timothy 2:25-26

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