What is the good news?

My Sunday Scripture 2010.1.24

Seeing that many others have undertaken to draw up accounts of the events that have reached their fulfilment among us,

as these were handed down to us by those who from the outset were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

I in my turn, after carefully going over the whole story from the beginning, have decided to write an ordered account for you, Theophilus,

so that your Excellency may learn how well founded the teaching is that you have received.

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Jesus, with the power of the Spirit in him, returned to Galilee; and his reputation spread throughout the countryside.

He taught in their synagogues and everyone glorified him.

He came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read,

and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it is written:

The spirit of the Lord is on me, for he has anointed me to bring the good news to the afflicted. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives, sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord.

He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the synagogue were fixed on him.

Then he began to speak to them, 'This text is being fulfilled today even while you are listening.'

Saint Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21

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My Reading Notes:
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There was a time when, only words of the prophet can be of some comfort. Because people are all captives, are all blind. All human being are not free.

And there was a time when, Jesus had descended on earth, proclaiming to us the good news, that we could open our eyes and see. We are free. That is the biggest favor given to us people from the Lord.

We were all blind, and now that we could open our eyes. And that was the good news told us two thousand years ago.

Somehow, not every one on earth could reach the meaning behind it.

And I had found out, only Zhuang Zi had the similar meaning about free in the Chinese culture.