Luke 4:14-21

¹⁴The Holy Spirit made Jesus very powerful, and he went back to Galilee country. The people that saw him kept telling other people about him, and they told other people, so that soon everyone there heard the news about him.

¹⁵He went to the Jewish meeting houses ever week and taught people about God. They were all happy with him.

¹⁶Then Jesus came to his own community, called Nazareth. That was the town he grew up in. He went to the Jewish meeting house there on Saturday, like he always did, and he stood up to read to the people from God’s book.

¹⁷A helper there gave him the part Isaiah wrote. Isaiah told God’s messages, long ago. Jesus opened the book to the right place and read these words.

¹⁸“God’s spirit came into me. He picked me to tell good news to poor people. He sent me to tell prisoners, ‘You will go free.’ And he sent me to tell blind people, ‘You will see.’ And he sent me to people that are in big trouble, to take their trouble away.

¹⁹He sent me to tell everybody, ‘This is the time now for God to be good to you.’”

²⁰Then Jesus closed the book, gave it back to the helper there, and sat down. Everybody kept looking straight at Jesus.

²¹And he started to teach them, he said, “You just heard me read that message that Isaiah wrote, a long time ago. Well, those things are happening right now, while you are listening to me, today.”