The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and release to prisoners, to announce a year of favor from the Lord.

At the end of every seven-year period you shall have a relaxation of debts, which shall be observed as follows. Every creditor shall relax his claim on what he has loaned his neighbor, he must not press his neighbor, his kinsman, because a relaxation in honor of the Lord has been proclaimed.

But during the seventh year the land shall have a complete rest, a sabbath for the Lord, when you may neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. The aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap, nor shall you pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines in this year of sabbath rest for the land. While the land has its sabbath, all its produce will be food equally for you yourself and for your male and female slaves, for your hired help and the tenants who live with you, and likewise for your livestock and for the wild animals on your land.

This fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. When one of your countrymen is reduced to poverty and has to sell some of his property, his closest relative, who has the right to redeem it, may go and buy back what his kinsman has sold. But if hi does not acquire sufficient means to buy back his land, what he has sold shall remain in the possession of the purchaser until the jubilee, when it must be released and returned to its original owner. When, then, your countryman becomes so impoverished beside you that he sells you his services do not make him work as a slave. Rather let him be like a hired servant or like your tenant working with you until the jubilee year, when he, together with his children, shall be released from your services and return to his kindred and to the property of his ancestors.

The spirit of the Lord is upon me; therefore he has anointed me. He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives, recovery of sight to the blind and release to prisoners, to announce a year of favor from the Lord.

Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.