Was Jesus supposed to bring good news or was he the good news? ~ Cross reference of Luke 4:16 to Isaiah 61:1

The passage in Isaiah 61 is about Isaiah bringing good news to Judah and Jerusalem. Even if we assume that this was a prophecy by Isaiah that 700 years later Jesus will come into a synagogue and open Isaiah 61 and read it, it is still saying that Jesus is the messenger of good news.

So how did the messenger of good news become the good news.

I found this event in Luke 4 very similar to "Jesus's triumphant entry" in Matthew 21. Here Jesus takes the scroll given to him and zooms into Isaiah 61 [I assume he was given Isaiah scroll] reads these verses and then claims it is fulfilled. Same way in Matthew 21 he asks for 2 donkeys and then rides on them into Jerusalem to fulfill that which was written in Zechariah 9.

Synagogues were setup as early as 5 BCE [5 years before Jesus was born assuming he was born in 1 CE]. These were in towns outside Jerusalem as in Jerusalem the people used the temple. Rabbis defined a structured way for the people to spend the time reading prescribed texts from Torah, Tanakh, Psalms and also had defined the prayer format and blessings to say. Seems a bit weird that Jesus had the choice to pick Isaiah 61 on his own. What is more weird is that he reads a verse and then declares it fulfilled.

Do you think that is how a prophecy is fulfilled?

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This post is not intended to offend anyone's faith but for those people who are Seeking the truth of THE ONE TRUE G-D of the universe to who we owe all our love, gratitude & devotion.

My encouragement to you is that you read the whole chapter of Tanakh that the Greek text quotes so you get the context and understand what G-d actually said.

G-d Bless and Seek THE Truth.

Luke 4:16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”[f]

Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Lord God was upon me, since the Lord anointed me to bring tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to declare freedom for the captives, and for the prisoners to free from captivity. 2 To declare a year of acceptance for the Lord and a day of vengeance for our God, to console all mourners.

• This is not a messianic prophecy that the messiah will come after 700 years into a synagogue & read this passage and declare that this prophecy is fulfilled. It is a prophecy about the messianic age. 
• Jesus asserted that he is the messiah and that by reading this passage the prophecy is fulfilled. He has the right to do that, given how the Greek texts say that Jesus went around and taught, healed and fed people and also that he died to save people from sin. Only issue here is Isaiah is not talking about any of these things.
• If you see verse 2 it clearly says that this is the year of acceptance[Jubilee] and vengeance of G-d and G-d will take revenge on the enemies of Israel. 
• Verses 3-5, you see what this good news that Isaiah is talking about, people building ruins, raising up structures that were left in desolation, renewing ruined cities etc. This has nothing to do with what Jesus did.
• Christians can midrash all this to say that Jesus did much more for us than this by saving us from sin. But that is not how prophecy works in Tanakh.
• You can safely rule out Jesus if you read verse 5, where Isaiah says that gentiles will work for Israel. Exactly opposite happened. Israel became slaves to gentiles.
• All these are yet to happen and hope G-d fulfills these in our time.

Isaiah 61:2 To declare a year of acceptance for the Lord and a day of vengeance for our God, to console all mourners. 3 To place for the mourners of Zion, to give them glory instead of ashes, oil of joy instead of mourning, a mantle of praise instead of a feeble spirit, and they shall be called the elms of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, with which to glory. 4 And they shall build the ruins of old, the desolations of the first ones they shall erect; and they shall renew ruined cities, desolations of all generations. 5 And strangers shall stand and pasture your sheep, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.