First, Jesus’s ministry enacts the Lord God’s hospitality. Jesus declares that “the Spirit of the Lord is upon me” (4:18a) and that his ministry is “to proclaim the year of the Lord’s welcome” (4:19). The phrase “Spirit of the Lord” refers to God’s Spirit, and the second phrase (in 4:19) is a quotation of Isaiah 61:2a, so no doubt the primary referent of “Lord” is the God of Israel. Jesus’s ministry, then, is both empowered by God’s Spirit and a manifestation of God’s welcome.6 In other words, “the
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