There is a story about Dr. C. I. Scofield, the man who was responsible for The Scofield Reference Bible. You're saying, "We don't have any proof. "Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in Your home town as well." And He instructed the people to care for the widows and that was a very important part of living out godly righteous life. To them had come the Messiah of God, to them had come the Savior of the world with the message of salvation, a message of riches, a message of forgiveness, a message of eternal life, a message of release. B. Jesus's Second Visit to Nazareth (Very Late in the Galilean Ministry) Scripture: Matthew 13:54-58 and Mark 6:1-6 Notes: These two passages narrate a visit toward the close of the Galilean ministry. She probably thought like this, "Well, I only have one little cup left, one little bit of oil, that's all I've got. It was so important to God for the warnings of horror to be believed that the Bible says if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life (Revelation 22:19). No such confession is ever going to rise out of their hearts, their hard hearts are filled with pride and self-righteousness and religiosity. Be a good soldier! Zephaniah & Habakkuk foretell Judah's fall, Zephaniah warns of the punishment of Judah, Habakkuk asks why the cruel Babylonians succeed, 44. Is the man of God really the man of God? They knew He did miracles. No prophet is welcome in his hometown, no prophet is dektos, accepted in his hometown. In their minds they were the respectable. For example, C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), a British preacher, had no formal education beyond Newmarket Academy. Jezebel was a Gentile. He just drops out of nowhere. They couldn't see themselves as spiritual lepers. John's Letters to the believers in Asia Minor, 20. While a seminary education can be helpful, it is not essential. The Return of Jesus to Galilee is an episode in the life of Jesus which appears in three of the Canonical Gospels: Matthew 4:12, Mark 1:14 and John 4:13, 4:4345. between 7AM and 14PM . Many people did reject Jesus. And so far the story has been positive. If You want us to believe in You, then, physician, heal yourself. He says, "You want Me to do what was over there, but that's not because you really care to have proof, this is your way of self-justification." "Jesus came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and as was His custom He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read, and the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him and He opened the book and found the place where it was written, 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor, 2. Familiarity breeds its normal contempt. They could have proven that He was the Messiah in an instant. How did it turn so badly? From Acts of the Apostles to John's Revelation, 12 Aug. 1 Corinthians 10:16-17,11:20-34, 2 Feb. Genesis 29:31-35,30:1-12,17-24. Jesus did not send an angel to testify of myths, but of facts, prophecies that will soon take place. She knew that she was the poor, the prisoner, blind, and the oppressed. You know, the Lord had said, "You know, I come to save, this is it. They all knew him. Amen is what the word is in the Greek, I solemnly assure you. It's an idiom for "I'm telling you the truth, this is really true. Today, visitors to Sepphoris can see extensive 1st century remains including a colonnaded street, the ruins of a large Roman amphitheatre, and a huge water cistern nearby that supplied the city. What you're about to hear is profound. I'm in poverty. All the way through these four chapters of Luke's gospel, everything has been very positive. Jesus did not return to Nazareth because the city was important. It's a way of saying, prove your claims. This son had a slightly less violent disposition than Archelaus. There's only one reason why people who know the truth of Jesus don't believe. 83-184. 1 Peter 2:19-20(NASB). Paul's Journey to Phrygia, Macedonia & Archaia, 11. They don't want the salvation He offers if the terms are to admit that you are the poor and you're the prisoners and you're the blind and you're the oppressed. The Jesus Trail (Hebrew: , Sh'vl Yesh) is a 65 km (40 mi) hiking and pilgrimage route in the Galilee region of Israel that traces the route Jesus may have walked, connecting many sites from his life and ministry. how many times did jesus celebrate passover. It was in the time of Elisha, and they didn't like Elisha, he didn't have any honor in his ownin his own country any more than Elijah did. He has sent me to tell the captives they are free and to tell the blind that they can see again to announce the time when the Lord will show his kindness (Luke 4:18) (see Isaiah 61:1-2). Guest. They were unsympathetic to that, they were too proud, too self-righteous, they were too skeptical because they were in a self-defense mode. His parents make an offering to the temple of two young birds. He had married a woman named Jezebel. We also know in John 1 He was there to call some of His disciples. This was a proverb that was well known. He was the Savior of the world. Elisha followed Elijah and that was a time, 850 to 790 B.C., disease was a major problem. Jesus's return to Galilee marks the beginning of his "public ministry" in Galilee, as he begins to preach there,[5] and in Matthew's interpretation, the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah (Isaiah 9): The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, The travels of Mary and Joseph from Egyptian territory all the way north to Nazareth is a journey of at least 106 miles (170 kilometers, see Luke 2:39 - 40)! 6:2, seq.) They were like Paul, and I read it in Philippians 3, they were circumcised and they had their tribal pedigree and they were of the people of Israel and they were traditionalists and they were ceremonialists and they were zealous for the law and they kept the law as blamelessly as they could. But that Christ would be holy, and consecrated to God, all the prophets foretold, especially Daniel (9:24): The Holy of Holiesi.e., Christshall be anointed. (Vulgate) Thus, too, Samson, who was a type of Christ, was a Nazarite. Well, that's what I told you last week. And they were saying repeatedly, "Is this not Joseph's son?" Deuteronomy 13 said that if you have a false prophet, you can do that, kill him. That's got to be somebody else, thatthats the Gentiles. The Journeys of Isaac, Jacob & Joseph, Jacob cheats Esau and flees to Mesopotamia, 25. John 18:7. That is the last thing they were about to do. God in Psalm 68:5 is called "The God who is the defender of widows." Many times the preacher had said, "The eyes who are honored to look at the sight of Messiah are of all eyes most blessed and the ears who are honored to hear His voice of all hears most blessed." It must have bothered some of them that Jesus stopped there and didn't say anything about the day of vengeance. About 18,000 of these residents were clergy, priests and Levites. There are many widows. They were the godly, the chosen, the true worshipers, the legalists, the ceremonialists, the covenantalists. The whole of Israel became idolatrous, started worshiping Baal. He was a very bad ruler and Joseph was afraid. How will I ever know that? Imagine that you had come this morning and Jesus was standing in the pulpit to tell you that the time was now for the fulfillment of all prophecies and it would begin with Him taking us to heaven in the glories of the rapture to the homes that He has prepared for us there. There is a similar event in the synagogue at Nazareth that happened at the end of Jesus' life. They just heard the greatest speaker that ever lived. John 1:11 says Jesus "came to his own, and his own did not receive him," in clear reference to the Jewish population in the Holy Land at the time. All you have to do is go over to the river and go down seven times." They would never accept the fact that they were the poor, prisoners, blind, and oppressed. They never question them. The Greek word tekton usually translated carpenter really means a craftsman or artisan, denoting a skilled worker in the building trade, who would have worked in wood and also in stone. Why did He stop reading in the middle of Isaiah 61:2, "The favorable year of the Lord," and He stopped when the rest of the verse said, "And the day of vengeance of our God?" In 538 BC, King Cyrus of Persia decreed that the Jews exiled in Babylon should be allowed to return to Judea, a process that continued for the next 400-500 years. Some time after Jesus arrived in Nazareth, the Sabbath arrived; and so Jesus went to the synagogue. There was never a preacher like Him. They were His relatives and His friends and His neighbors. But the Christian ministry is spiritual warfare! And they are stirred, believe me, because they heard the truth presented as clearly as it could ever be presented. How long did it take Jesus to walk from Nazareth to Jerusalem? These are statements indicating great importance. It is very possible that the people had come because they had heard that Jesus would be speaking. They denied the light because they preferred darkness. Paul's Letters to Ephesus, Colossae & Philippi, 17. They made the victim unclean, cut off from all fellowship, all social activity, cut off from the families and isolated because of the contagion that was believed to be a part of these diseases, and Israel had many, many such people with these diseases, many of them. The problem is we don't have proof. But to come from Sidon, that is unthinkable. He wasn't there for vengeance on anyone, He was there for salvation. And the first thing that he does is he announces a drought. The greater the distance away, the greater he became. No Sabbath ever began so wondrously and no Sabbath ever ended so tragically. Why did Jesus return to Nazareth? They hated that message so violently because they would not be humiliated. The power of the Holy Spirit - for everyone? And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, Sepphoris became an important centre of Jewish learning where the Jewish Council (the Sanhedrin) met and the traditions of the Jewish elders, so often challenged by Jesus (see, for example, Matthew 23:1-28) were codified into the Mishnah. His wife worshiped Baal. We don't know what brow of it. Let me put it to you simply. John's Letters to the believers in Asia Minor, 20. The Israelites journey from Egypt to Mt Sinai, 26. The account of Jesus second visit to the city of Nazareth begins in Mark 6:1. After the people rejected Jesus once again, He responded to them with these words, Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.Mark 6:4 (NASB). He returned because He was concerned about the people. Around 100 BC, one clan from the line of David returned to Israel and established the town of Nazareth. The text of 1 Kings 17 indicates that. That's an analogy of spiritual life and supply. How am I going to know that that's true unless I do what He says? Jesus returned knowing that the majority of the people in Nazareth did not welcome Him, but He returned anyway. They all knew Elijah, the great prophet of Israel. They never did. Don't confuse it. They were so entrenched in their self-righteousness, so unwilling to see their sin that when Jesus, the Messiah they had waited for for so long, the Savior of the world came, they tried to kill Him because He threatened their self-righteousness. Others just refused to believe because they preferred their own way darkness. They grabbed Him and in mob violence like a lynch mob, they roared out of the city, led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built. At the time of the return of Joseph, Mary and Jesus return home, Jesus was between two to five years old. Jesus teachings and the rumors about His miracles should have encouraged them to respond, but they did not. A new nation? First Kings 17, that judgment comes through Elijah, he drops on the scene out of nowhere and he announces this judgment. There were many widows. Forty days after Jesus is born, fulfilling the purification requirement of Leviticus 12, Mary and Joseph travel to Jerusalem's temple to present him before God. Joseph, Mary and Jesus return from Egypt to their home at Nazareth in Galilee. Mary was well along in her pregnancy; the Bible describes her at this time with the expressive phrase "heavy wi. They were His relatives and His friends and His neighbors? The people in the synagogue responded as some might today. Then they'll know that I'm the Messiah, right?". There is a raging war between good and evil in our homes, churches, and nations. The MacArthur New Testament Commentary. That famine That area, by the way, was also affected by the famine. I'm desperate. Answer Jesus was referred to as "Jesus of Nazareth" for several reasons. John 9:16(NASB). 21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of . They chose not to. Verses 14 and 15 tell himtell us about Him, "The news had spread throughout all the surrounding district," and verse 15 says, "He was being praised by all." Crossway Books. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: He will be called a Nazarene. But more than wondering about that, that might have been a minor thing, they were really struck it says in verse 22 by the gracious words which were falling from His lips. They were noble. Paul's Journey to Cyprus, Pamphylia & Galatia, Paul & Barnabas return to Antioch in Syria, Paul & Barnabas attend the Council of Jerusalem, Paul & Barnabas take the decision to Antioch, 10. Ive actually been criticized by some ministers and Christian workers for going to certain small churches instead of going to larger ones. Chapter 4 verse 14, He returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit. It could include a proverb or an axiom. Impeccable understanding of truth He possessed, pure and holy passion for that truth, flawless reasoning, accurate interpretation, unmatched dexterity with the language. Jesus read Isaiah 61:1 and 2a, and then He explained, according to verse 21, that today this scripture has been fulfilled, that is I am the Messiah, I am the fulfillment of all messianic promises. He is rejected for the first time (Lk 4:28) TRAVELS and ACTS OF JESUS, YEAR TWO - c AD28-29 Key: 1 - Approximate sequence of events, used in the list following [1] Jesus moves to Capernaum (Mt 4:13; Mk 1:21; Lk 4:31). We don't like that story at all. On one of his raids he took captive, this is in the stories in 2 Kings 5, first fourteen verses, you can read it yourself, he took back this girl, one of his captives and she became a servant in his house to help his wife. And that is absolutely intolerable to them, to go to someone who is a life-long Jew, a life-long attender of the synagogue, a serious devout Jew and say, "You're no better off than a pagan, you're no better off than an outcast Gentile leper," is unthinkable because they're so committed to the self-righteousness that's a part of a works system. 10 Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see me." (Matthew 28:8-10) Two Disciples on the Road to Emmaus They may be passive Christians. Honestly, they were as eager for the Messiah to come and wreak vengeance on their Gentile enemies as they were for Him to come and bring salvation to Israel. Ask Him. 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