| Allan Starling - 1981 - 276 pagini
...Helen asked. Gunday just nodded her consent. As Helen read from Luke 4, verse 18 leaped out: "He sent me to proclaim release to the captives ... to set at liberty those who are oppressed ... " Gunday became restless and inattentive. Disappointed, Helen left. She had expected an instant... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1981 - 602 pagini
...with our oppressed brothers and sisters for justice in order "to preach good news to the poor. . . to proclaim release to the captives. . .to set at liberty those who are oppressed." Therefore, be it resolved that we, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church: 1. Express... | |
| William M. Ramsay - 1986 - 120 pagini
..."The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives . . . to set at liberty those who are oppressed." (Luke 4:18) On February IS, 1966, the Colombian army ambushed and shot to death the leader of a group... | |
| Gerhard Krodel - 1986 - 534 pagini
...acclaimed Lord and Savior. The platform announced at the opening of Jesus' mission at Nazareth included: "to proclaim release to the captives ... to set at liberty those who are oppressed" (Luke 4:18). Precisely this program involved Jesus himself in arrest, imprisonment, and execution.... | |
| William H. Willimon - 1988 - 228 pagini
...even the power of God, could prevail against such a hand? "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. . . . He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, . . . to set at liberty those who are oppressed, . . ." (Luke 4:18). Jesus' inaugural sermon in Nazareth receives its fulfillment in the free man who,... | |
| Mark Allan Powell - 1989 - 164 pagini
...in a programmatic statement. Jesus describes his mission as being "to preach good news to the poor," "to proclaim release to the captives." "to set at liberty those who are oppressed." and "to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord" (vs. 18-19). Jesus is quoting passages from Isaiah... | |
| Donald Senior - 1992 - 196 pagini
...Leon-Dufour, Sharing the Eucharistic Bread: The Witness of the New Testament (New York: Paulist, 1987). release to the captives — to set at liberty those who are oppressed" 4: 18). Later in the Gospel, at the Transfiguration, Jesus had conversed with Moses and Elijah about... | |
| William Reuben Farmer - 1994 - 260 pagini
..."The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor, be has sent me to proclaim release to the captives to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." — Luke 4:16-19 (RSV); Isa. 61:1-2 IV And after leaving... | |
| Joseph G. Allegretti - 1996 - 156 pagini
...finds the answer in the story of Jesus. Like Jesus, we are called to "preach good news to the poor. ..to proclaim release to the captives. . .to set at liberty those who are oppressed.""1 Peterson notes that for most criminal defendants, the criminal act itself is the tip... | |
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