Originally posted by JYD:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr /> It does not say that He was reading from a scroll of Deuteronomy.
And??? you obviously forget WHO we are talking about. He is the Word of God,He needs no scroll to quote scripture. </font>[/QUOTE]I don't disagree with you on that. None the less, in Luke 4 it says Jesus was reading. In the passage you cite to help explain, it does not say He was reading.
Like I said before, I don't have a problem with the fact that the words in Luke 4:18 are not identical to the words at Isaiah 61:1. But I have not yet seen a KJVO explaination of how this can be possible. My contention is that
saying the same thing does not require saying it with the same words. That is exactly how I view this issue- the pursuit of the words is an academic pursuit involving evidence and evaluation but the pursuit/application of the Word (what was said) is a spiritual one.
Word for word perfection is not required for perfection of the message.
I can completely buy in to the explaination promoted by kman. But his post just further supports my contention. Jesus took the whole of Isaiah and the scriptures in context. The Bible is one Word, not limited to the sum of its human words.