Jesus stood up to read
and was handed a scroll
of the prophet Isaiah.
He unrolled
the scroll and found
the passage where it was written:
"The Spirit of the
Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He sent me to
proclaim
liberty to captives and
recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year
acceptable to the Lord."
Rolling up the scroll,
he handed it back to the attendant
and sat down, and the eyes of all
in the synagogue
looked intently at him.
He said to them,
"Today
this Scripture passage
is fulfilled in your hearing."
[Lk 4:15-21]