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Isaiah 49:6

Isa.49.6

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he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
Isaiah 49:6 English Standard Version (ESV)Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated into any other language.

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  1. Acts 13:47 quotes Isaiah 49:6

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    Paul and Barnabas take the servant's commission to be a light for the nations as their own marching orders.

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  2. Luke 2:32 alludes to Isaiah 49:6

    Strong allusion or echoHigh confidence

    Simeon calls the child a light for revelation to the Gentiles and glory for Israel, echoing the servant songs' light for the nations.

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