Esau McCaulley writes, Isaiah realized that true worship of Yahweh had implications for how one treated their neighbor. According to Isaiah, Israel’s oppression of the poor in his day betrayed a practical apostasy. For Isaiah, piety must bear fruit in justice. Jesus knew that inasmuch as his message of justice impinged on the lives of the powerful, he was liable to rejection and death. Jesus not only embraced this prophetic tradition, he declared himself the climax of it by claiming that the acceptable day of the Lord (Is 61:1–2) had arrived in him (Lk 4:14–21). . . . Jesus saw his ministry as
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