Luke 4:13-19: in context

After the temptation, Jesus returns to Galilee in the power of the Spirit and comes to Nazareth, where he grew up. On the Sabbath he stands to read in the synagogue and is handed the scroll of Isaiah. He finds the passage and reads: the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives, sight to the blind, freedom for the oppressed, and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.

This is Jesus announcing his own mission, choosing this passage to define what he came to do. And look at who his mission is aimed at: the poor, the captives, the blind, the oppressed, the crushed. He does not describe his ministry in terms of the strong, the successful, the impressive; he describes it as good news for the poor and freedom for the imprisoned and sight for the blind. The heart of his work is directed toward the people at the bottom, the ones the world overlooks, the broken and bound and crushed. And he ends on the note of the year of the Lord's favor, an allusion to the Jubilee, the year debts were canceled and slaves freed and land returned. Jesus is announcing a great release, a favor of God breaking into the world for exactly those who most need it. It is worth letting this define our picture of Jesus and of the mission he hands to his people: not primarily a movement of the strong reaching down, but good news that finds its natural home among the poor and the bound. The one anointed by the Spirit came, first of all, for them, and proclaimed a year of favor to the crushed.

Does my picture of Jesus and his mission match the one he chose for himself, good news for the poor and freedom for the captives, and does my life share his heart for the broken and bound?