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  Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah and when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written: [which He then read aloud...] “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted...To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed (Luke 4:16-18). We’re probably going to ‘camp out’ on this one verse (18) for the next few days as there is much to glean from it. If you want to truly gain more insight from God’s word, it helps to take your time with it and allow the Holy Spirit to open up our understanding, just as Jesus did for His disciples (Luke 24:32,45). There are no trophies waiting in heaven for those who read through their Bible the most times. I closed out yeste...