Commentary
Today
… In Your Hearing …
Jesus
came to Nazareth anointed and sent by “the Spirit of the Lord.”
To
his neighbors, Jesus proclaims, “Today this Scripture passage is
fulfilled in your hearing.”
God's
salvation – glad tidings to the poor, liberty to captives, recovery
of sight to the blind, freedom to the oppressed, and a year
acceptable to the Lord – is fulfilled today, in our hearing. It is
real, here and now.
Nazareth
was an insignificant town of probably 400 people [1]
. It was so insignificant that there is no mentioning of it
in the entire Old Testament [2].
And outside of the Gospels, it is only mentioned for the first time
in the 3rd Century
[3].
(Next Sunday, as we continue with Luke's Chapter 4, even the people
of Nazareth do not see themselves too highly).
To
the people in this insignificant town, today, this Scripture passage
is fulfilled in their hearing.
It
is so with us. Today, God's salvation is fulfilled in our hearing,
regardless of who we are.
And
just like Jesus, as children of God, we have been anointed and sent
by the “Spirit of the Lord.” We are commissioned to proclaim the
same message to all people. May they know that it is today God's
salvation is fulfilled in their hearing also.
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[1]
Scott Korb, Life in Year One,
quoted by Wikipedia
[2]
Catholic Encyclopedia, www.newadvent.org
[3]
Anchor Bible Dictionary, quoted by Wikipedia
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