Luke 4:17

Overview - Luke 4
The temptation and fasting of Christ.
14 He begins to preach.
16 The people of Nazareth admire his gracious words, but being offended, seek to kill him.
33 He cures one possessed of a devil,
38 Peter's mother-in-law,
40 and divers other sick persons.
41 The devils acknowledge Christ, and are reproved for it.
42 He preaches through the cities of Galilee.
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Luke 4:17  (King James Version)
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
 


the book
20:42 Acts 7:42 ; Acts 13:15 Acts 13:27

he had
[Anaptusso ,] "unrolled the book;" the Sacred Writings being anciently (as they are still in the synagogues) written on skins of parchment, and rolled on two rollers, beginning on each end, so that in reading from right to left, they rolled off with the left hand while they rolled on with the right.

the place
Isaiah 61:1-3