This coming Sunday is the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time and Jesus is in the synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth. In the previous post Jesus proclaimed a reading from the Prophet Isaiah. In this post Jesus’ first words are recorded.  How appropriate that the first record of public ministry is the very living Word made flesh sharing the Word of God. Luke records these first spoken words of Jesus’ ministry:

¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, ¹⁹ and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.”