Last week, the gospel in Luke 2:22-40 was read and heard by many. The story was about the presentation of the Baby Jesus at ...

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Matthew's reference to Jesus being from Nazareth aligns with the broader Old Testament theme of the Messiah as a despised and rejected figure who would be of low status (see Isaiah 53:3).

From the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. 53:4-6: Surely he has born our griefs ... the image of humanity par excellence? Jesus' fall beneath the Cross is not just the fall of the man Jesus, exhausted ...

So the suffering servant of Isaiah 53 becomes the suffering Jesus of the gospels. And Luke's quotation from Isaiah 61 becomes a reference to Jesus's ministry of healing and reconciliation.