WWJT – 1/19/2010 – Reading Luke 4:14-21
January 15, 2010 by George · 2 Comments 
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Luke 4:14-21
The Beginning of the Galilean Ministry
14 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. 15He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. 16 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
18‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
19to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.’
20And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21Then he began to say to them, ‘Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.’
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I love this passage. It reminds me of going to temple when i was a boy (not that jesus was there– at least not in flesh and blood) The ark would be opened and the scroll was removed. It was opened to a certain place and then one of the men of the community would read the passage. I dont remember anyone ever saying,, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing….. This was in Hebrew of course. This is excatly what happened this one day at this synagogue 2000 years ago. I bet that historians could date this event just by tying in the passage to the reading calendar and cross referencing with the historical calendar.
here are links to 2 chapters from a book written in 1800s by Alfred Edersheim. He was an Austrian Jewish biblical scholar who became a follower of Jesus. He later lived in Britain and was ordained in the Anglican Church. He wrote several books about Jesus in context of his Jewish roots. this is from his book “The Life and Times of Jesus the MEssiah,” in these chapters he describes how a synagogue service would be held at the time of jesus and gives his idea of how that day in the synagogue might have unfolded. the language is old fashioned but I found it fasciinating if you can get thru the whole thing. It gives you some background for the reading in Luke. I read 2 of his books some years ago and found they shed a lot of light on Jesus jewish roots.
http://philologos.org/__eb-lat/book310.htm
http://philologos.org/__eb-lat/book311.htm