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- "The quotation has significance both as our Lord's statement of his call to his saving ministry and as Luke's affirmation of this ministry as thematic in his Gospel. In saying 'Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing' (v. 21), Jesus identifies himself as the subject of Isaiah's prophetic word. . . . His role as Suffering Servant is not specified here, but an association may be assumed on the basis of the place of Isaiah 61 among the Servant passages." (Walter L. Liefeld, THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE COMMENTARY, Vol. 2, © 1990 Zondervan, pp. 866-67)