John's Revelation to the 7 Churches of Asia, John's Letter to the 7 Churches of Asia Minor, The messages to the believers on the coastal plain, The messages to the believers living inland, 21. Then I knew. The Twelve Instructed and Sent Forth. So he goes back and his servant says, "Well, better a dirty river and a clean Naaman, huh?" Never does the Jewish population or the Jewish leaders question Jesus' miracles, never. Using the website implies your agreement to the use of cookies. In the synagogue, a man with an evil spirit shouts out, Jesus of Nazareth! About 18,000 of these residents were clergy, priests and Levites. 4:14-30 One Sabbath day, according to his usual custom, Jesus goes to the local synagogue in Nazareth where he was brought up (see 4 on Map 5). It's more of that "familiarity breeds contempt." He was a Gentile and worse than that, he was a leper, he had leprosy, he was unclean, he was despicable on every count. They were all the familiar faces of His life there. It is very possible that the people had come because they had heard that Jesus would be speaking. He had been invited to speak in a church in North Carolina. We don't like that story at all. 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. What is essential is a mans love, faithfulness, and obedient walk with God and a never ending search of the scriptures in order to increasingly know God resulting in ongoing transformation into Christ-likeness. It's always the problem. Later Jesus decided to return again. What a day, what a day. Father, this is such a powerful, powerful statement of the mission of the Messiah to save sinners. Why is He bringing that ugly story up? Somebody had witnessed to her about the true God of Israel and she trusted in the true God of Israel. Be a good soldier! 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, Help Grace to You bring important resources like this to people in your community and beyond, free of charge. Just as some today show disrespect for those without formal seminary training, the people in this small Nazareth synagogue showed disrespect for Jesus lack of formal education. Some time after Jesus arrived in Nazareth, the Sabbath arrived; and so Jesus went to the synagogue. 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. This study describes this second return. Jesus is the speaker and the teacher in this passage, as you know from our study last week. It just kept getting filled and filled and filled. Haggai & Zechariah encourage re-building, Haggai urges the exiles to re-build the Temple, Prophesies about the coming of the Messiah, 47. Now listen to this very carefully. And thenand the Lord did another amazing thing. I need to see something so that I can believe.". On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Herod's cruel actions fulfill a prophecy regarding the slaughter of innocent children (Jeremiah 31:15). For them, everything is a crusade. Now it says, verse 26, "And Elijah was sent to none of them." 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. Huh. Messiah? Aged 12, Jesus goes to Jerusalem with his parents for the Jewish festival of Passover. You're saying, "We don't have any proof. We will suffer just because we serve Jesus. I believe that Jesus returned because He loved them, desired to see them believe in Him, and gain eternal life. And a three and a half year drought produces a famine, people start to die. The Bible never directly states how long Joseph and Mary stayed together, however evidence in the book of Luke suggests that they spent 12 years . How to get right with God: By water or the Spirit? It is because they do not see themselves as the poor, the blind, the prisoners, and the oppressed. She is a pagan Gentile widow in the midst of a pagan godless area but believes in the true and living God. Oh they said, "Do some things like You did down there. Verse 30, instant calm, "But passing through their midst He went His way." Text, maps & photos (unless otherwise stated) by Chris & Jenifer Taylor 2023. [1][2][3] The Gospel of Luke, on the other hand, does not record anything about the flight to Egypt, but says that Joseph had been previously living in Nazareth,[4] and returned there after the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Since Matthew 1:25 reveals that Mary had sexual relations with Joseph, it is difficult to argue that Mary never had children unless one chooses to discredit the apostle Matthew and the Holy Spirit who jointly wrote . It's a way of saying, prove your claims. Israel becomes a kingdom under Saul and David, Jonathan demolishes the Philistine pillar at Geba, Saul is killed by the Philistines at Mt Gilboa, The Ark of the Covenant is brought to Jerusalem, David's victories over Israel's neighbours, Absalom's flight & his rebellion against David, 31. They understand exactly what He said and, believe me, they understand what He meant by what He said because He spoke so perfectly clear. Salvation is available for the poor, the prisoners, the blind and the oppressed. How will I ever know that? And what they couldn't understand was that they knew Him and this was just Joseph's son, or so they thought. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you . The MacArthur New Testament Commentary. They were His relatives and His friends and His neighbors. "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, So Jesus is the fulfillment of this prophecy, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He anointed Me." There are many widows. So S. Ambrose and Ruperti."[11]. And Jesus knew that because Jesus knew their hearts. And so He says to them in verse 23, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal yourself! They responded by attempting to murder Him. 21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of . The family continues their travels northward to their hometown of Nazareth (Matthew 2:22 - 23). How do I know you're a man of God? Jezebel was a Gentile Baal worshiper. Those who never suffer are probably not in the battle. We must not avoid spiritual conflict when wrong has occurred just because our culture or others in the church say conflict is wrong. That was the only That was the only negative in all these chapters that He was going to be opposed? Now, you know, if she had been in the synagogue at Nazareth, she would have probably said, "Oh no, no, no. [11] Jesus returns to his home-town of Nazareth, and preaches in the synagogue (Lk 4:16). Paul's Letters to Galatia & Thessalonica, The risen Lord Jesus appears to his followers, Christ's Victory Parade & the New Covenant, 15. As Jesus was probably taught the same trade as Joseph, it is highly likely that he served at least part of his apprenticeship in the highly Romanised atmosphere of Sepphoris. They did not realize that schools can educate only the mind. He wasn't there for vengeance on anyone, He was there for salvation. They continued to reject the apostles even after Jesus left. Sometimes spiritual warfare is an indication that one is a good soldier who is engaged in a conflict for 1) righteousness and 2) for the souls of those who believe in Jesus Christ. And he said"I'll" he was furious, he was a man of honor and a man of stature and a man of dignity and a man of nobility and he isn't going to humble himself in some kind of humiliating deal and go dump himself down seven times in some dirty river. This woman in the land of Sidon, hang on, is a Gentile. ( J. C. The Israelites journey from Egypt to Mt Sinai, 26. Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, What are we doing? And there may have been a little bit of town rivalry going on as well. So, Matthew seems to place the birth of Jesus quite a few years before 4 BCE. [2], Those who heard and saw Jesus did not reject Him for lack of evidence but in spite of overwhelming evidence. She says, "The Lord God of Israel lives." Ethbaal, he was so devoted to Baal He named himself after Baal. 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?" They enjoy controversy and conflict. Accordingly, early in October, 4 B.C., they departed from Bethlehem for Nazareth, going by way of Lydda and Scythopolis. John's Gospel narrative refers to Jesus travelling through Samaria in order to reach Galilee, and describes his meeting with a Samaritan woman at a well at Sychar in Samaria. The answer is that people who don't believe when they know the facts don't believe for one reason. 9 At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_of_Jesus_to_Galilee&oldid=1088534225, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 18 May 2022, at 16:11. The day of salvation had come, it was there, it was fulfilled, He the Savior who would bring the salvation was standing in front of them and they were hearing His voice and looking at His face. Few believed in Him! They never got over this, by the way. That He was going to cause people to fall as well as to rise? I understand that humanly speaking that that's a factor. 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. Ezekiel warns of the conquest of Jerusalem, Ezekiel's vision of idolatry in the Temple, Ezekiel speaks through prophesies and parables, Further prophecies & the fall of Jerusalem, Hope for the future - New life for Israel, 45. It's actually shocking. He was the long-awaited Anointed One. She knew her condition. Paul's Letters to Ephesus, Colossae & Philippi, 17. She made the little cake, the prophet ate it and the next thing that happened was her barrel was never empty. Many people did reject Jesus. Yet, God encourages us to seek peace and avoid conflict. And then He proceeded to exposit the passage, recited there in verses 18 and 19. That was not a question in their minds. There was never a preacher like Him. Ahab became a Baal worshiper, a worshiper of Baal. 1 Peter 2:20 tells us that we gain favor with God when we suffer for doing what is right. That's got to be somebody else, thatthats the Gentiles. And if he's not, I'll just have one less meal and die half a day sooner. In John 1:46, Nathanael reveals that the city was unimportant when he said, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Matthew. That was them. In fact, John himself was greatly perplexed because John the Baptist, soon after the beginning of the ministry of Jesus, was taken prisoner. One scone, if you will, one biscuit. Few people were interested and so few people came. Bernegger, P. M. "Affirmation of Herod's Death in 4 B.C. Jesus saith unto them, I am [he]. The Romano-Jewish world of the New Testament, 22. 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 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." Well, if you go back to 1 Kings 17, I don't have time, you're going to hang with me now, another few minutes, because we can't break this off, I'm not going to get to speak to you for a while, we've got to cover this, this is so powerful. Having met Mary, a local girl, he may have settled in nearby Nazareth a much quieter and more Jewish village a short distance away from the cosmopolitan (and more expensive) Sepphoris. They soon begin their travel back to Judea and Bethlehem. After another dream, Joseph returned to Nazareth in Galilee. The people in the synagogue responded as some might today. IV. Obadiah foretells the punishment of Edom, Obadiah prophesies the resurgence of Israel, 46. Omniscience, He read their minds. Ezekiel warns of the conquest of Jerusalem, Ezekiel's vision of idolatry in the Temple, Ezekiel speaks through prophesies and parables, Further prophecies & the fall of Jerusalem, Hope for the future - New life for Israel, 45. I have to take my desperation, my destitution, my disease, I have to go over there. The Letter to the Jewish believers in Antioch, The General Letters: James, Jude, Peter & John, The Letter of James to the Jewish believers, The Letter of Jude to the Jewish believers, The 1st Letter of Peter to the Jewish believers, The 2nd Letter of Peter to the Jewish believers, 19. How am I going to know that that's true unless I do what He says? One who desires to serve God will suffer. So the accumulated information about the miracles was growing and growing and nobody ever questioned that. And that is the case of Jesus. There He grew up from a child into an adult and then started His ministry. Instead, we should notice that very few people came to Jesus for healing. The rich tapestry of testimony from angels, from Gabriel, from the angels that gave testimony to the shepherds in the field, a rich testimony from godly men and women like Zacharias and Elizabeth and Joseph and Mary and Simeon and Anna and even the testimony of the prophet himself, John the Baptist, and it's all been positive up to now. . They persecuted the apostle Paul, and the Roman politicians persecuted Christians for many years after the apostles. The day of salvation was present. Tyre and Sidon in that Gentile region, Zarephath was a town in between the two, Tyre and Sidon, a Phoenician city. His wife led that. This is the most wretched thing imaginable. It's a broad term. They never questioned that. They started asking one another, Where did He get these things? Like his father, Archelaus rules with tyranny and cruelty. They refused forgiveness because they wanted to keep their sins. The Journeys of Isaac, Jacob & Joseph, Jacob cheats Esau and flees to Mesopotamia, 25. This study describes this second return. They knew that this was speech like there had never been. It's available to those of you who confess your spiritual poverty, who confess your spiritual bondage, who confess your spiritual darkness, who confess your spiritual defeat. There was not an honest issue of evidence. Joseph, on the eighth day after Mary gives birth, takes the family to Jerusalem so that the Lord can be circumcised according to the law of God (Luke 2:21). Elisha followed Elijah and that was a time, 850 to 790 B.C., disease was a major problem. It all began so assuringly. It may also include what is today called leprosy, but really by that most people mean Hansen's disease, but it included all kinds of diseases of the skin described in Leviticus 13. It is possible that He also returned to visit His sisters. But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He? John 7:31 (NASB), But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him. Jeremiah warns of the destruction of Jerusalem, Jeremiah says idolatry will bring Judah's fall, Jeremiah prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem, Miscellaneous flashbacks to earlier times, Gedeliah is murdered & Jeremiah goes to Egypt, 43. The main part of the trail begins in Nazareth and passes through Sepphoris, Cana (), the Horns of Hattin, Mount Arbel Cliffs, the Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, Tabgha . The young preacher leaned over and apologized to Dr. Scofield for the small number who had come to hear his preaching and teaching. how many times did jesus celebrate passover. It doesn't. And Elisha says to him, "The God of Israel is willing to heal you. We pray in His name. No prophet is welcome in his hometown, no prophet is dektos, accepted in his hometown. "I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah." R. Kent Hughes. Jewish religious rituals Wise men visit Jerusalem The holy family flee to Egypt The holy family return to Nazareth Jesus grows up 4. They refused to admit it. God has called us to be peacemakers (Matthew 5:9). In John 11:47 the Pharisees, the chief priests said, "This man is doing miracles." Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath. But others were saying, How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs? And there was a division among them. And so to her goes the prophet of God rather than to Israelites. John Gills' Exposition of the Bible states that one time he sent his entire army into Jerusalem's temple, at Passover, in order to kill 3,000 men suspected of sedition. 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. Let me be very honest. The triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem is narrated in Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-44 and John 12:12-19. They never did. She figured that out, by the way. They gave their tithes. We sent you an email. Let me tell you something, there's nothing worse than spiritual pride, is there? She took the little that she had, she gave it to the man of God and in return she got life, permanent life. They couldn't equivocate on the majesty of His oratory. That is absolutely unthinkable, unthinkable. They may be passive Christians. A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation. They would never accept the fact that they were the poor, prisoners, blind, and oppressed. Zephaniah & Habakkuk foretell Judah's fall, Zephaniah warns of the punishment of Judah, Habakkuk asks why the cruel Babylonians succeed, 44. Lk. The whole nation is worshiping Baal. We can just imagine their thoughts. How to get right with God: By water or the Spirit? 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. When Jesus had lived there, He was the carpenter. I understand that." How do we know He's the Messiah? The return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth, also known as the return from Egypt, appears in the reports of the early life of Jesus given in the canonical gospels. There is a story about Dr. C. I. Scofield, the man who was responsible for The Scofield Reference Bible. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.[2]. Some Bible scholars had noted differences in the birth narrative story of the flight. 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. Therefore, He was prevented from healing many. Impeccable understanding of truth He possessed, pure and holy passion for that truth, flawless reasoning, accurate interpretation, unmatched dexterity with the language. John's Letters to the believers in Asia Minor, 20. At first His words settled well. 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). 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. It's always been that God will save Jew or Gentile when they come to a point of spiritual destitution and they know it. The result, the end of verse 25: "When a great famine came over all the land." I was telling someone about my meeting with the rabbi and their comment was, "Why does he not believe in Jesus as Messiah and Savior?" A later Roman mansion dating from c.400AD has a beautiful mosaic floor depicting the luxuriant landscape of the Nile Valley. "Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in Your home town as well." He left Nazareth, where he had grown up, and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the Sea of Galilee[3] "in the heart of the world, in a busy town, and near others, on the shore of a sea that was full of fish, and on a great international highway".[4]. And you could have paraded before me an infinite number of miracles. And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And You know, there's a bit of a concession here. He would have gone into that synagogue and seen His aunts and His uncles, and His half-brothers and half-sisters, and His cousins and distant relatives and friends and neighbors. What it does do is affirm the faith of those who believe. He spoke in the synagogue, but the townspeople did not like what he said. The people who are at the bottom of the food chain are the widows because they're charity cases. Open your Bible to the fourth chapter of Luke. Note that Matthew 13:55 provides the same list of Marys children. Text, maps & photos (unless otherwise stated) by Chris & Jenifer Taylor 2023. 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. Formal education can be very helpful, but it is not essential. Do you see it? Returning home Nazareth would have looked something like thisNazareth is famous for one thing, and one thing only: it was the home town of Jesus. Don't You come tell us You're the doctor if weif we don't have some proof.". They would come across the border and they would fight and they would terrorize and raid Israel and they would take prisoners and haul the prisoners back to Syria. So God cared for widows. To do good to those who despitefully use us and persecute us. No Sabbath ever began so wondrously and no Sabbath ever ended so tragically. Two prophets in Israel unwelcomed, hated, rejected, refused by the people. 19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the childs life are dead., 21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. He knew that. Verse 27: "There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha, the prophet." Listen. Their journey from Bethlehem to what is Egyptian-controlled territory (which was outside the jurisdiction of Herod) was at least 65 kilometers (40 miles). He commanded a set of troops that were always raiding Israel. Many are impressed by Jesuss teaching, but others, realising he is a local boy Josephs son dismiss his words as arrogant nonsense, and they threaten to throw him down the steep cliff below the brow of the hill on which, 1. God, the God of the fatherless and the widow, God, the God who cares about the widows, there was a famine in the land for three and a half years and the people were dying and the widows were dying and God never cared for any of the widows. But Christ had no intention of overturning the power of Herod. Sure death was frequent, men died in wars. That famine That area, by the way, was also affected by the famine. To guard against evil and ignorant prejudices. 1989. vol. 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. . All eyes in the synagogue are fixed on him as he says, While you heard these words just now, they were coming true! (Luke 4:21). So, even John had talked about that. Herod's son, Archelaus, only ruled until 6 CE, when Judea became a province ruled from Rome. He was a soldier. . The listeners could not believe what they heard. Learn: I. Here is an enemy, a Gentile, somebody who has sacked and attacked and killed and plundered Israel and he's a leper. For this man is performing many signs. 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