Isaiah 61:1-3

1-3. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me Upon whom? The use which our Lord Jesus Christ at Nazareth (Luke 4:16-22) made of these words must decide that he made himself the person meant. He declared himself herein the predicted and divinely anointed Servant of Jehovah; and that he had brought glad tidings of redemption to his people. The passages in Isaiah 42:6-7; Isaiah 59:20-21, point out the same idea. He (the “Lord God”) hath sent me The “Servant of Jehovah,” the “Messiah.” See Psalms 45:7; also Mark 1:1, and Acts 10:38. The jubilee phrases are figures expressive of the work really wrought by Christ at his visible advent. The phrases are as follows: “The meek,” “the brokenhearted,” “the captives,” that is, to sin; “the prison-opening,” “the acceptable year,” “the mourners in Zion,” etc. All these were terms of jubilee specialty, and the objects mentioned were those upon which Jesus was tenderly compassionate.