One of the most dramatic moments in the life of the Master was that in which, having entered the synagogue of his home village, he opened the book of the prophet Isaiah and read those wonderful words of Messianic forecast: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. " It was the moment of his first public self-recognition, when he daringly yet calmly declared that he who was known to them all as a humble carpenter's son, was indeed the hope of Israel, their Saviour.
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