He reads from the prophets. If Jesus’s reading is part of worship (Luke does not say this explicitly), then this would have been the public recitation of the Haftarah, the reading from the prophets that accompanies the Torah reading in Jewish services every Sabbath morning to this day. No Haftarah reading is ever mentioned in the Old Testament. In other words, this interpretation treats Luke’s Gospel without any regard for its historical context. It claims, at least implicitly, that Luke’s only context is the Old Testament—which it obviously is not.
