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["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

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  Thanks, that is very interesting indeed.  As to the question as to who 
opened Isaiah 61 for Jesus' reading in the synagogue, Luke 4:14, 17 indicates 
that it was Jesus himself:



  And then proceeded to interpret it as referring to himself, which almost 
got him thrown off a cliff. 

  Yigal
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Dear Yigal.

>   Thanks, that is very interesting indeed.  As 
>to the question as to who opened Isaiah 61 for 
>Jesus' reading in the synagogue, Luke 4:14, 17 
>indicates that it was Jesus himself:
>
>   And then proceeded to interpret it as 
>referring to himself, which almost got him 
>thrown off a cliff.

HH: Actually, it wasn't interpretation of the 
passage as regarding himself that got him into 
trouble, although it did raise a question about 
his identity given his humble background as a 
carpenter's son:

Luke 4:22 ¶ All spoke well of him and were amazed 
at the gracious words that came from his lips. 
"Isn't this Joseph's son?" they asked.

HH: What got him into trouble was his 
characterization of his hometown and nation as 
sinful:

Luke 4:23 ¶ Jesus said to them,  "Surely you will 
quote this proverb to me:  'Physician, heal 
yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have 
heard that you did in Capernaum.'"
Luke 4:24 ¶  "I tell you the truth," he 
continued,  "no prophet is accepted in his 
hometown.
Luke 4:25 I assure you that there were many 
widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky 
was shut for three and a half years and there was 
a severe famine throughout the land.
Luke 4:26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, 
but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of 
Sidon.
Luke 4:27 And there were many in Israel with 
leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet 
not one of them was cleansed - only Naaman the 
Syrian."
Luke 4:28 ¶ All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.

                                        Yours,
                                        Harold Holmyard