Luke 4:14-21

¹⁴As the Spirit empowered him, Jesus returned to Galilee district. People throughout all that region heard about what he was doing.

¹⁵He taught people in their ◄synagogues/meeting places►. As a result, he was praised by everyone {everyone praised him}.

¹⁶Then Jesus went to Nazareth, the town where he grew up. ◄On the Sabbath/On the Jewish rest day► he went ◄to the synagogue/to the Jewish meeting place►, as he usually did. He stood up to indicate that he wanted to read Scriptures to them.

¹⁷A scroll containing the words that the prophet Isaiah had written was given to him { Someone gave to him a scroll containing the words that the prophet Isaiah had written}. He opened the scroll and found the place from which he wanted to read. He read these words:

¹⁸The Spirit ◄of the Lord/of God► is upon me. He has appointed MTY me to declare God's good news to the poor. He has sent me here to proclaim that God will deliver those whom Satan has captured, and he will enable me to enable those who are blind to see. He will enable me to free people who have been oppressed {whom others have oppressed}.

¹⁹And he sent me to declare that now is the time when ◄the Lord/God► will act favorably toward people.

²⁰Then he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down to teach the people. Everyone in the synagogue was looking intently MTY at him.

²¹He said to them, “Today as you have been hearing MTY me speak, I am beginning to fulfill this Scripture passage.”