Light has dawned.[6]. That, by the way, is a phrase He repeated a year and a half later when He came back again to that synagogue. And He said, 'Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown, but I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was shut up for three years and six months when a great famine came over all the land, and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath in the land of Sidon to a woman who was a widow; and there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman, the Syrian.' Monlaigne, the famous French philosopher, politician, and writer, said that at home he was considered just a scribbling country proprietor, in the neighboring town a man of recognized business ability, and farther away a noted author. Great speakers making great speeches have always won over the minds and hearts of their hearers. But on that day the Messiah Himself is the reader and He is the expositor, Messiah the Son of God Himself is the mafteer, to whom the chazan hands the haftarah. They all knew him. Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? Joseph found that one of King Herods sons, Archelaus, was ruling in his place in Judea. The Gospel of Matthew describes how Joseph, Mary, and Jesus went to Egypt to escape from Herod the Great's slaughter of the baby boys in Bethlehem. It's never a question of miracles ever because miracles don't prove anything about that. Omniscience, He read their minds. And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, Nazareth turned its back on Jesus. They tried to kill Him but it wasn't His time. The people were still worshiping Baal, they were still turning their backs on the true and living God and along came leprosies everywhere and in verse 27, "There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet and none of them was cleansed but only Naaman the Syrian." The whole of Israel became idolatrous, started worshiping Baal. 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. I understand that no prophet is welcome in his hometown. You're saying, "Well, why should we believe Him, after all, we don't have any proof that He's the Messiah." And Jesus knew that because Jesus knew their hearts. 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 Nazareth is located. Then He gave the exposition of those passages and showed what they meant and how He fulfilled them. He had never taught, Hed never preached and when He did, they were in awe. The World of the New Testament Journeys, English Translations of the New Testament, Jesus teaches how to receive the Holy Spirit, Jesus is changed on the slopes of Mount Hermon, Jesus heralds the end of the sacrificial system, The believers are filled with the Holy Spirit, Stephen is killed & the believers are scattered, 9. There are many widows. It relates the return of Jesus to Galilee upon the imprisonment of John the Baptist. 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. And then He proceeded to exposit the passage, recited there in verses 18 and 19. It is not clear which Old Testament verse Matthew might have had in mind; many commentators suggest it is Isaiah 11:1, where it says "A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit" (NIV): the Hebrew word for "branch" is nezer. Mary was well along in her pregnancy; the Bible describes her at this time with the expressive phrase "heavy wi. And, of course, as I read in verse 15, He was at this point being praised by all and even in verse 22 all were speaking well of Him. Many people did reject Jesus. That wouldn't have proved anything if he had spun up in the air and done some amazing things, if he had done some healings or whatever, it wouldn't have proven anything. 1. You see that? 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." He was put in prison by that pagan, wretched, wicked, vile man named Herod. Listen. I mean, there may have been some things that they were wondering about in His message. She took the little that she had, she gave it to the man of God and in return she got life, permanent life. The greater the distance away, the greater he became. 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). Most of the Nazarenes were royalty. It was a small, isolated city in the Galilean hills. Chapter 4 verse 14, He returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit. They had been all their lives to the synagogue, all their lives to that synagogue and they had heard reading after reading of the Torah, the law, and the Haftarah, the prophets, and sermon after sermon on Sabbath after Sabbath through millennia, if not centuries of years and they had heard many sermons about the Messiah and they had read many scriptures about His coming. You can't get saved unless you're willing to be humiliated and realize your sinful condition. in Nazareth, Mary and Joseph had to return to Judah for the Roman-mandated census. John 18:7. Therefore, He was prevented from healing many. 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. It isn't, it doesn't, it didn't. All Rights Reserved. The only way she would ever know whether God would supply all she ever needed was to take the little that she had and trust it to him. And through His whole life He didn't express vengeance. After the wise men leave, Joseph is told (in a dream) to flee to Egypt (verse 13). The Romano-Jewish world of the New Testament, 22. At the time of the return of Joseph, Mary and Jesus return home, Jesus was between two to five years old. Let's follow the story. 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 only way she would ever know was not if he went up in the air and spun around a few times, not if he went out and healed some people, the only way she would ever know that the God of Israel would give her all she would ever need was if she took what she had in her poverty and trusted him with it. Well they were in awe of the gracious words which were falling from His lips. That's what He did. And they're the only ones who will be saved. 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 . Ive actually been criticized by some ministers and Christian workers for going to certain small churches instead of going to larger ones. That is the testimony of history and the gospel accounts. And He instructed the people to care for the widows and that was a very important part of living out godly righteous life. They didn't question that. As a result, they missed some tremendous blessings. So Jesus returned to the city of conflict! So if you look at 1 Kings 17 you see the story. (Judg. Jewish religious rituals Wise men visit Jerusalem The holy family flee to Egypt The holy family return to Nazareth Jesus grows up 4. ", In verse 28, "All in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things." 12:42 says many did believe, but they kept it private, for fear the Pharisees would exclude them from the . Lk. Her son got sick and died, remember? And with Him came salvation to the poor, and the prisoners, and the blind, and the outcasts, the distressed, the oppressed, the downtrodden. Matthew. She is a pagan Gentile widow in the midst of a pagan godless area but believes in the true and living God. Or eternal life in God's kingdom? He's saying to them, "I can see that it's hard for you to get past the fact that I'm a local guy, that I grew up here and that I am Joseph's son and Mary's boy and that this is my synagogue and you saw me here all those years of my life. Many times the preacher had stood up in the synagogue and said, "The blessed hour of the Messiah is to come." But passing through their midst, He went His way.". Those are the only people He can save. Where did He learn how to do these miracles?. Gray.) Was Jesus an outspoken rabbi or was he God? 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. Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in Your hometown as well."' I have to take my desperation, my destitution, my disease, I have to go over there. And you could have paraded before me an infinite number of miracles. Oh, man, did they hate this story. Note that Matthew 13:55 provides the same list of Marys children. One scone, if you will, one biscuit. If I give it to him and he is a man of God, then I'll have life. Matthew 13:53 to 58 and Mark 6:1 to 6 give the account of Jesus' visit to the Nazareth synagogue at the end of His ministry in Galilee. Acts 2:22 It's always been that God will save Jew or Gentile when they come to a point of spiritual destitution and they know it. 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. 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. He also used it as recorded in John 4:44. 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. By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Capernaum was the backdrop of many of Christ's mighty miracles. Is this really His prophet? There was never an orator like Him. Jewish religious rituals Wise men visit Jerusalem The holy family flee to Egypt The holy family return to Nazareth Jesus grows up 4. They were the godly, the chosen, the true worshipers, the legalists, the ceremonialists, the covenantalists. That's always the problem. I understand that." 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. Isaiah offers comfort to those in exile, Words of comfort after the fall of Jerusalem, Those returning are encouraged to follow the LORD, The LORD's blessing will rest on Jerusalem, 41. The Romano-Jewish world of the New Testament, 22. The people who are at the bottom of the food chain are the widows because they're charity cases. Map ReferencesHoly Bible, a Faithful VersionJohn Gills' Exposition of the Bible. In their minds they were the respectable. Matthew does not mention Nazareth as being the previous home of Joseph and Mary; he says that Joseph was afraid to go to Judea because Herod Archelaus was ruling there and so the family went to Nazareth instead. Dr. Scofield replied, Young man, my Lord had only twelve men in His school and in His congregation most of the time. Now what's wrong with Naaman? We will discover later in our study that the religious leaders would join together and devise a plot to get rid of Him. If I don't trust the God of Israel who lives, if I don't trust the man of God, I'm dead anyway, what's half a day longer? How do I know whether you're going to take that one thing and you're going to do with that one thing something that's going to provide for me all the rest of my life? Aha, not on your life. Scripture tells of Joseph returning to Nazareth, avoiding any further residence in Judea. So we are worse than a Gentile widow from Jezebel's hometown. So, Matthew seems to place the birth of Jesus quite a few years before 4 BCE. During Jesuss childhood, Herod Antipas (Herod the Greats son), the tetrarch (ruler) of Galilee, restored and redeveloped Sepphoris as a Romanised city (known as Diocaesarea), locating his palace there before building a new residence at Tiberias between 18 and 20AD. The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, . They refused to admit it. 2. Powerful orators have always been able to captivate people. John 15:20(NASB), Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. They were His relatives and His friends and His neighbors? So the people at the end of the food chain get nothing, so widows are on the brink of death. But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God. Their journey from Bethlehem to what is Egyptian-controlled territory (which was outside the jurisdiction of Herod) was at least 65 kilometers (40 miles). 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. When people know about Jesus Christ and they know the facts of Jesus Christ and they don't believe, there's only one reason why they don't believe. But I can only save the poor, and the prisoners, and the blind, and the oppressed. Return to Nazareth; Finding in the Temple; Ministry. That was just how He started. It is quite possible that Joseph first met Mary when he came to work in Sepphoris. They did not come because they had found reasons for rejecting Him. She says, "The Lord God of Israel lives." "The Date of Herod's Death,". How did it turn so badly? He was a soldier. From the Kingdom of Israel to the Exile, 5. Instead, we should notice that very few people came to Jesus for healing. They could have proven that He was the Messiah in an instant. After King Herod died, an angel of the Lord told Joseph to take Mary and Jesus back home to the land of Israel. Ask Him. And Elisha says to him, "The God of Israel is willing to heal you. They persecuted the apostle Paul, and the Roman politicians persecuted Christians for many years after the apostles. The judgment comes and it is a judgment on the idolatry, the Baal worship of Ahab and the people of Israel. Background Reading: The Return from Egypt. I don't know what they think they're accomplishing by falsifying miracles as if falsifying miracles somehow is going to cause people to believe in Jesus Christ. Are you willing to suffer in your service for God? He began to believe in the power of the God of Israel and so eventually through some situations, I won't go into all of it, he wound up meeting Elisha. Guest. They were the people of God. At first His words settled well. Mary and the family's trip to and from Egypt is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy (Hosea 11:1). There are many widows. The reason for rejecting the Lord has always been that men prefer their own way to His.[3]. On the Sabbath, he begins to teach the people. Jesus' birth, which occurs on or around the Feast of Trumpets (September 2 in 5 B.C.) There have been some noted pastors down through history who had no formal theological education, but they have been terrific spiritual examples. And You know, there's a bit of a concession here. Give Him your life, that's the only way you'll ever know. John 12:37(NASB). Therefore the return . This is the father of the aposof the apostasy, in a sense, in Israel because he's the father of Jezebel who came and polluted Israel worship when she married Ahab, and so forth. The following comparison is primarily based on the New International Version (NIV): [1] Jesus, the disciples and the crowd went to Bethphage from Jericho (20:29). Paul's Letters to Galatia & Thessalonica, The risen Lord Jesus appears to his followers, Christ's Victory Parade & the New Covenant, 15. We just can't buy this message. They were His relatives and His friends and His neighbors. ( J. C. After all, had John the Baptist himself in his ministry about which they all knew, John the Baptist had said, "When the Messiah comes He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with (what? 21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of . "I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah." Tyre and Sidon in that Gentile region, Zarephath was a town in between the two, Tyre and Sidon, a Phoenician city. They just couldn't get it. They're saying, "Do them here." They soon begin their travel back to Judea and Bethlehem. He was the long-awaited Anointed One. 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. She did. The whole nation is worshiping Baal. If you're going to trust somebody to be a physician, you want some proof that he canhe can heal. A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation. Sidon was Gentile territory on the north coast of Israel, Tyre and Sidon, the two familiar cities. Psalm 146:9, "God, the Lord who relieves widows." They were righteous. But it does nothing for those who don't because no miracles can prove that Jesus can save the sinner from hell. After Herod dies in early 4 B.C., Joseph has a dream where an angel tells him it is safe to return to Israel. He knew that. Though still young, he has the favor of God and men. Well, I'm from the God of Israel and I'm going to ask you, if you will, to take all that you have left, your last meal before you die, starve to death, and she had a son as well, and give it to me. The Philosopher, the Lover & the Mourner, Introduction to the Old Testament Prophets, Amos denounces social injustice in Israel, Hosea laments the unfaithfulness of Israel, Micah decries social injustice in Israel and Judah, 39. If Jesus did a miracle, does that prove that He can transfer people from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light? The Divided Kingdom & Journey into Exile, Jezebel kills the prophets & Elijah escapes, Elijah organises the opposition to King Ahab, Jehu races to Jezreel to depose King Joram, King Joash repairs the Temple in Jerusalem, Jeroboam II restores the boundaries of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria invades Israel, Israel falls & the exiles are led to Assyria, King Hezekiah of Judah rebels against Assyria, Isaiah prophesies the destruction of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invades Judah, Jerusalem falls and the exile in Babylon begins, Biblical sources relating to Judah in exile, The later years of exile & the return to Judah, The completion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, A third group of exiles returns with Ezra, A fourth group of exiles returns with Nehemiah, Mordecai uncovers a plot to kill the king, The origin of the Jewish festival of Purim, 37. [2], Those who heard and saw Jesus did not reject Him for lack of evidence but in spite of overwhelming evidence. This one is at the beginning. His parents make an offering to the temple of two young birds. Its Hebrew name Zippori, meaning a bird reflected its lofty position looking out across Cana, Nazareth and the Bet Netofa Valley. Upon learning that Herod Archelaus had succeeded his father in Judea, they continued on to Galilee. And he raised her son from the dead just because she trusted the tiny bit that she had. They don't even like the fact that He's telling these stories. There's only one reason why people who know the truth of Jesus don't believe. John 1:46(NASB). This is intolerable. They understand exactly what He said and, believe me, they understand what He meant by what He said because He spoke so perfectly clear. And Ethbaal was such a wicked man he murdered his predecessor and he was a priest as well as being a king. She knew her condition. between 7AM and 14PM . How about you? During Jesuss childhood, the most important town in Galilee was Sepphoris, located 4 miles / 6 km to the north of Nazareth (see Map 4). No prophet is welcome in his hometown, no prophet is dektos, accepted in his hometown. Salvation is available for the poor, the prisoners, the blind and the oppressed. He was a big-time soldier. "Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in Your home town as well." Jeremiah 9:23-24. They were astonished by it. Please respond to confirm your registration. Obadiah foretells the punishment of Edom, Obadiah prophesies the resurgence of Israel, 46. It's a broad term. Let me tell you about the days of Elijah for a minute. So, even John had talked about that. The Golden Age of Israel under King Solomon, Solomon builds a palace and furnishes the Temple, The Ark of the Covenant is installed in the Temple, Solomon builds a network of chariot cities, 32. You know, the Jews didn't like this story, I can tell you, and as Jesus starts to tell it, they start to get angry. We can just imagine their thoughts. 13:54-58; b MARK 6:1-6; c LUKE 4:16-31. b 1 And he went out from thence [from Capernaum]; and he cometh {a And coming} b into his own country; and his disciples follow him. Father, this is such a powerful, powerful statement of the mission of the Messiah to save sinners. The day of salvation was present. Jesus teachings and the rumors about His miracles should have encouraged them to respond, but they did not. Accordingly, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions in order to comply with GDPR. a MATT. He returned because He was concerned about the people. 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. Huh. He commanded a set of troops that were always raiding Israel. To take heed how we reject Jesus. They all knew Elijah, the great prophet of Israel. You didn't know either and neither did I until I gave Him my life. How could Jesus let it happen? God has not called us to peace at all costs. We're in shock, aren't we? After another dream, Joseph returned to Nazareth in Galilee. However, the rest of the passage reveals that Jesus did perform healings when people came to Him. When asked to read from the scriptures (in line with Jewish tradition), he picks up the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, unrolls it, and begins to read, The Lord has put his Spirit in me, because he appointed me to tell the Good News to the poor. John 9:16(NASB). And you remember the story? And He grew up and He didn't do any miracles and He didn't make any such claims and He didn't do any speaking and how can He now be the Messiah? 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. The text of 1 Kings 17 indicates that. Zephaniah & Habakkuk foretell Judah's fall, Zephaniah warns of the punishment of Judah, Habakkuk asks why the cruel Babylonians succeed, 44. It's always the same. Matthew 1:25(NASB). God sends Elijah in this midst of all this famine over to Zarephath, to this widow. If You want us to believe in You, then, physician, heal yourself. How many journeys did Mary and Joseph take before and after Jesus' birth? They didn't even want these stories to be rehearsed again, they didn't like these stories. 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?" Why? These are statements indicating great importance. And she would only know if that was the man of God if she trusted him. 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, There are those in the ministry today who do not have formal education, but they really know the One who was the from the beginning (1 John 2:12-14). For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly. Here He comes to His own boyhood synagogue, and if, as historians tell us, the town of Nazareth had about 20,000 people, it would have had a lot of synagogues. He was concerned that they were sinners who needed their sins forgiven. Since the UK is now no longer a member of the EU, you may be charged an import tax on this item by the customs authorities in your country of residence, which is beyond our control. Home town as well. 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