“And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,”
And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written — the scroll of Isaiah handed to Jesus by the attendant is the occasion for the programmatic self-disclosure of the Nazareth sermon. The finding of the place suggests deliberate searching rather than random opening — Jesus is looking for a specific text. The Isaiah scroll is the appropriate vehicle for the messianic announcement because Isaiah is the Gospel of the Old Testament.
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