Luke 4 · Verse 19

Luke 4:19

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Luke 4:19, King James Version

Luke 4:19 in other translations

BSB	to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
WEB	and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
ASV	To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
YLT	To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.'
DARBY	to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
BBE	To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure is come.
Webster	To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

What does Luke 4:19 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 4:18-19

18-19. To have fixed on any passage announcing His sufferings (as Is 53:1-12), would have been unsuitable at that early stage of His ministry. But He selects a passage announcing the sublime object of His whole mission, its divine character, and His special endowments for it; expressed in the first person, and so singularly adapted to the first opening of the mouth in His prophetic capacity, that it seems as if made…

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Barnes' Notes

Verse 19. To preach the acceptable (q) year of the Lord. The time when God is willing to accept of men, or to receive sinners coming to him. The gospel assures us that the guilty may return, and that God will graciously receive them. There is, perhaps, here, an allusion to the year of jubilee--the fiftieth year, when the trumpet was blown, and through the whole land proclamation was made of the liberty of Hebrew slaves, of the remission of debts, and of the restoration of possessions to their original families, Lev 25:8-13. The phrase "the acceptable year" means the time when it would be acceptable to God to proclaim such a message, or agreeable to him---to wit, under the gospel.

(q) Isa 61:2, 63:4

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 4:14-30

Christ taught in their synagogues, their places of public worship, where they met to read, expound, and apply the word, to pray and praise. All the gifts and graces of the Spirit were upon him and on him, without measure. By Christ, sinners may be loosed from the bonds of guilt, and by his Spirit and grace from the bondage of corruption. He came by the word of his gospel, to bring light to those that sat in the…

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Luke 4:19 in the original Greek

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κηρύξαιkēruxaito proclaimG2784

ἐνιαυτὸνeniauton[the] yearG1763

κυρίουkuriouof [the] Lord’sG2962

δεκτόν.dektonfavor.G1184

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Luke 4:19

Isaiah 61:2
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Isaiah 63:4
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Luke 19:42
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Leviticus 25:50-54
And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. …
Leviticus 25:8-13
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. …
2 Corinthians 6:1
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
Numbers 36:4
And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

19:42; Le 25:8-13,50-54; Nu 36:4; Isa 61:2; 63:4; 2Co 6:1

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Context

Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke 4:19
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luke 4:20
And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

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Luke 4:19 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Para predicar el año agradable del Señor.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	et pour publier l’an agréable du ✶Seigneur ».
German Elberfelder 1871	auszurufen das angenehme Jahr des Herrn".
Latin Clementine Vulgate	prædicare captivis remissionem, et cæcis visum, dimittere confractos in remissionem, prædicare annum Domini acceptum et diem retributionis.