Jesus' call can be traced...
Jesus' call can be traced back to his baptismal experience and to that Isaiah 61 passage.
Having heard that he was God's beloved, the Lord reached out and told everyone he
touched that they were beloved, too. No wonder he took the words from the Isaiah scroll
so seriously. His was a ministry that always reached out lovingly to human need.
Isaiah traced his call back to an event that happened in the temple. It was a time of grief.
The king had died, surely Isaiah wondered about his future and his country's future. In a