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Luke 4:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 4:21 declares Isaiah's announcement fulfilled in the synagogue's hearing and makes the Nazareth scene programmatic.
Read It With
- Luke 4:14–4:21
Read Luke 4:21 with 4:14–4:21. In isolation, this contribution—declares Isaiah's announcement fulfilled in the synagogue's hearing and makes the Nazareth scene programmatic—can be detached from its speaker, audience, scene or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: In the Spirit's power Jesus teaches in Galilee, reads Isaiah in his customary synagogue, and declares good news to the poor, release, sight, liberty, and the Lord's acceptable year fulfilled in their hearing.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Luke 4:21 declares Isaiah's announcement fulfilled in the synagogue's hearing and makes the Nazareth scene programmatic. This precise contribution belongs inside “Jesus Announces Isaiah's Good News at Nazareth” because In the Spirit's power Jesus teaches in Galilee, reads Isaiah in his customary synagogue, and declares good news to the poor, release, sight, liberty, and the Lord's acceptable year fulfilled in their hearing.
Follow the Context
- Identify the actors, setting, and initiating speech or action in Luke 4:14–4:21.
- In the Spirit's power Jesus teaches in Galilee, reads Isaiah in his customary synagogue, and declares good news to the poor, release, sight, liberty, and the Lord's acceptable year fulfilled in their hearing.
- Hold this material interpretive limit in view: Luke's combined Isaiah wording and stopping point shape a programmatic scene. 'Poor,' 'captives,' 'blind,' and 'oppressed' carry real social and theological force and must not be reduced to metaphors alone.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
This verse does not detach its specific contribution—declares Isaiah's announcement fulfilled in the synagogue's hearing and makes the Nazareth scene programmatic—from the complete unit or override the unit's explicit boundary: The announcement does not erase bodily poverty, disability, imprisonment, debt, Jewish Sabbath worship, or the need to test modern liberation claims contextually.
What Remains True
Luke 4:21 declares Isaiah's announcement fulfilled in the synagogue's hearing and makes the Nazareth scene programmatic. Read inside Luke 4:14–4:21, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: In the Spirit's power Jesus teaches in Galilee, reads Isaiah in his customary synagogue, and declares good news to the poor, release, sight, liberty, and the Lord's acceptable year fulfilled in their hearing. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
How It Can Shape Life
- Luke 4:21 declares Isaiah's announcement fulfilled in the synagogue's hearing and makes the Nazareth scene programmatic. Its faithful response is proportionate to that role: Join proclaimed good news to real attention to poverty, captivity, disability, debt, and oppression while testing modern liberation claims by Luke's whole narrative and the safety of affected people.
Teach It Back
Explain Luke 4:21's specific contribution to Luke 4:14–4:21: declares Isaiah's announcement fulfilled in the synagogue's hearing and makes the Nazareth scene programmatic. Include the preceding and following movement, one source-controlled uncertainty, one affected person or group, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 4:14–4:21, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 4:14–4:21
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 4:14–4:21
Open source ↗