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The story is told of a Jew who went to synagogue, and who had the honor of reading there the <\/span>haftarah<\/span><\/i> from the prophets. That day the reading was from Isaiah 61, so the Jew read: \u201cThe spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.\u201d When he finished reading, he rolled up the scroll and told the others in the synagogue: \u201cToday, this has been fulfilled\u201d \u2013 and pointed to himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

This story is told, to be specific, in Luke 4, and the Jew, of course, is Jesus. The people of Nazareth, where this took place, were not amused, leading Jesus to comment sardonically, \u201cA prophet is never accepted in his hometown.\u201d Then the people tried to push him off a cliff, but he escaped.<\/span><\/p>\n

In its original context, the beginning of our chapter is more uplifting than provocative. It alludes to Leviticus 25 in saying that the prophet\u2019s goal is \u201cto proclaim liberty (<\/span>deror<\/span><\/i>) to those in captivity.\u201d One other important lesson comes later in the chapter: \u201cFor I the Lord love justice, I hate robbery with a burnt offering.\u201d This verse serves as the basis for a parable given by a different famous ancient Jew, Rabbi Shimon bar Yo\u1e25ai (<\/span>quoted in Sukkah 30a<\/span><\/a>):<\/span><\/p>\n

A parable of a flesh-and-blood king who was passing by a customs house. 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