When Our Lord stood up in the synagogue and read the scripture passage from Isaiah, many were surprised that He said, “Today, this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”
The scripture passage He read said, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and to let the oppressed go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.”
These words specifically referred to the Messiah, whom the people longed for the day of His arrival. So when Jesus said, ”this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”, Jesus was indirectly proclaiming Himself the Messiah.
While at first they were amazed, surprisingly, just after He said these words, the people would try to throw Him off the cliff, but He would escape. These words were proclaimed in Nazareth, the town in which He was raised. They would not have believed He is the Messiah, because they watched Him grow up in their own community. Today let us pray, through the intercession of Mary, the Mother of the Messiah, that the Jewish people may accept Jesus as the Messiah and accept the fullness of truth revealed by God by becoming members of the Catholic Church.
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