We don't know how many visits He made, we know of one in particular that is indicated in the second chapter of John. 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. How do we know He's the Messiah? He spoke in the synagogue, but the townspeople did not like what he said. Conflict is part of the Christian life. 8:39-59, 10:22-42 and 12:36-43. '", You see what they were doing? They did not come because they had found reasons for rejecting Him. Archelaus was known for his cruelty and in response to complaints from the populace, in 6 AD he was deposed by Augustus and banished to Vienne in Gaul. Jesus did not return because the crowd was large. Paul's Journey to Phrygia, Macedonia & Archaia, 11. She probably thought like this, "Well, I only have one little cup left, one little bit of oil, that's all I've got. 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. "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, He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are downtrodden, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.' Before we're going to believe on You, before we're going to believe that You're the Messiah, You better do some miracles here like You did down there in Capernaum. 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.' I met this week with a very famous rabbi, a very gracious man, very intelligent, a historian, very serious-minded man who asked to meet with me because we shared something in common, and that is a belief in the inerrancy of the Bible. In Bethlehem, Jesus' family is living in a home and not a stable (Matthew 2:11). How about you? And Jesus wasn't finished. If one is actively engaged in spiritual warfare and if one is doing what God has called him or her to do, then peace will not always exist. How to get right with God: Sacrifice or Faith? So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: He will be called a Nazarene. Just give your life to Him, He'll prove He can. At first His words settled well. Yet, God encourages us to seek peace and avoid conflict. 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." Pretty good thinking, isn't it? 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. Is this really His prophet? IV. 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. And Jesus knew that because Jesus knew their hearts. Jewish religious rituals Wise men visit Jerusalem The holy family flee to Egypt The holy family return to Nazareth Jesus grows up 4. When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?Mark 6:2(NASB), Many people were present, when Jesus started teaching. If You want us to believe in You, then, physician, heal yourself. And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. Mary and the family's trip to and from Egypt is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy (Hosea 11:1). He knew, He read their minds. Sepphoris had impressive colonnaded streets, a large forum (market place), several synagogues and a huge four thousand seater amphitheatre built into the eastern side of the hill on which the city was perched like a bird. They started asking one another, Where did He get these things? 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. As a result, it was a very cosmopolitan city that grew rapidly after Herod the Greats death in 4BC, around the time of Jesuss birth. Widows are dying, the special care of God are these widows, not enough food to feed your own children let alone to give it away to some widow. The first part of the passage seems to suggest that Jesus was unable to perform any miracles. Please respond to confirm your registration. The Romano-Jewish world of the New Testament, 22. We must not avoid spiritual conflict when wrong has occurred just because our culture or others in the church say conflict is wrong. There's only one way to know that Jesus can save your soul from hell and change your life and send you to eternal heaven with all your sins forgiven and that is to take your meager, little, wicked life and hand it over to Him and see what He does with it. . She wasn't in the synagogue in Nazareth and it was probably a good thing or she might have been influenced by the crowd attitude. The day of vengeance will come after the day of salvation. And they're the only ones who will be saved. The people dependent on charity suffer the worst because the people who give to charity only have enough to survive. They were literally stunned by it. They continued to reject the apostles even after Jesus left. She knew that she was the poor, the prisoner, blind, and the oppressed. How will I ever know that? 2023 Grace to You. That, by the way, is a phrase He repeated a year and a half later when He came back again to that synagogue. It isn't, it doesn't, it didn't. He didn't, because that was future. It's never a question of miracles ever because miracles don't prove anything about that. Therefore, they rejected Him. During Jesuss childhood, the most important town in Galilee was Sepphoris, located 4 miles / 6 km to the north of Nazareth (see Map 4). We will discover later in our study that the religious leaders would join together and devise a plot to get rid of Him. Let's see what He says, verse 25. 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. He was concerned that they were sinners who needed their sins forgiven. Imagine coming to church today expecting to hear me preaching and having the Lord Jesus Christ appear in person to tell you that He had come to fulfill all the prophecies of His Second Coming, all the prophecies of the glory of His Kingdom of salvation on earth. Jesus saith unto them, I am [he]. And He wondered at their unbelief. The Journeys of Isaac, Jacob & Joseph, Jacob cheats Esau and flees to Mesopotamia, 25. That He was going to cause people to fall as well as to rise? ", In verse 28, "All in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things." 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. 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 4:1-3, 4:43-45. 2. Her son got sick and died, remember? There's a bit of a concession there. Jesus's Journeys around Galilee Jesus starts his ministry Jesus is tempted Jesus returns to Galilee Jesus goes back to Nazareth Jesus travels to Jerusalem Jesus passes through Samaria Jesus performs healing miracles They were the people of God. Some discredit those whom they know in favor of those they do not know. He just drops out of nowhere. "Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in Your home town as well." And in the days of Elijah there were not only many widows, but there was Baal worship everywhere because the king was a man named Ahab. We don't know what brow of it. And what was behind that well speaking? It's always the same reason. It was positive. It's true the reputation of Jesus had been growing. John's Letters to the believers in Asia Minor, 20. The author of the book of Hebrew (7:14) informs that "it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah." And then He proceeded to exposit the passage, recited there in verses 18 and 19. If Jesus were alive today, the questions might be something like this, What commentaries does Jesus own? The Israelites face continuing opposition, The Israelites fight the remaining Canaanites, Israel under the 'judges': Othniel and Ehud, Gibeah is destroyed & the Benjamites punished, The Ark of the Covenant is captured at Aphek, 30. How to get right with God: By water or the Spirit? However, the rest of the passage reveals that Jesus did perform healings when people came to Him. God in Psalm 68:5 is called "The God who is the defender of widows." It could include a proverb or an axiom. It just kept getting filled and filled and filled. Heal some people, do some, you know" No that wasn't You know how they could have known if Jesus was the Messiah? They were like local churches in towns today, there are many in a given town. 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. That's all I can save and it doesn't matter whether they are a Gentile woman or whether they are a Syrian leper, it doesn't matter who it is, it just matters that they see their bankruptcy, their destitution, and they come to Me like the man who said, 'Lord, I believe, but could You help my unbelief?' John 19:19. This is a widow who believes in the true God. They don't even like the fact that He's telling these stories. A new nation? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Jesus said here in verse 25 that the sky was shut up for three andthree years and six months. All experts are from out of town, aren't they? Speaking of prophets that were unwelcome, I remind you of Elijah and Elisha. c 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He makes a transition. Jesus demonstrated an important truth for us God has not called us to avoid conflict in the 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). Remember him? The Twelve Instructed and Sent Forth. Elisha followed Elijah and that was a time, 850 to 790 B.C., disease was a major problem. This study describes this second return. 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. 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). JESUS VISITS NAZARETH AND IS REJECTED. All of this supposed miracle-working stuff that these modern-day, supposed healers do has absolutely no bearing on the gospel. We will suffer because there is a spiritual battle. Don't confuse it. You know, the Lord had said, "You know, I come to save, this is it. 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. It doesn't. Is God really truly God? Because it was a rainy night, about twenty-five people came to the meeting. Many, many times the text was messianic and many times the text was read and explained and their hearts were filled with the hope of the Messiah's arrival. He was saying the Messiah was there in their midst and they were hearing Him speak. The Israelites journey from Egypt to Mt Sinai, 26. Jesus did not send an angel to testify of myths, but of facts, prophecies that will soon take place. Jesus (c. 4 BC - AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader; he is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion.Most Christians believe he is the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited Messiah (the Christ) prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. 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. They wouldn't have proved anything. Because you can't be saved if you don't. Before Mary and Joseph leave the temple to return home a woman named Anna, a widowed prophetess who lived in the house of God, blesses them as well (Luke 2:36 - 38). 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. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. 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." In 5 B.C., just before the birth of Christ, the Romans require them to travel to their ancestral home (they were both of the lineage of King David) of Bethlehem. Now this is worse. That is the testimony of history and the gospel accounts. And a three and a half year drought produces a famine, people start to die. Please be aware that these items are sent out from our office in the UK. That is absolutely unthinkable, unthinkable. Or eternal life in God's kingdom? You know how the Jews in the synagogue that day that they could have known that Jesus was Messiah? 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]. Most scholarship places the date of Herod's death around 4 BCE.[6][7][8]. Open your Bible to the fourth chapter of Luke. I understand that humanly speaking that that's a factor. 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. And they were saying repeatedly, "Is this not Joseph's son?" Messiah? Note that Matthew 13:55 provides the same list of Marys children. He was there. 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. How do I know you're a man of God? So, Matthew seems to place the birth of Jesus quite a few years before 4 BCE. Now it says, verse 26, "And Elijah was sent to none of them." Two prophets in Israel unwelcomed, hated, rejected, refused by the people. And then he says when she's going to get the water, "Can you also take what youve got left and make me a meal?" This is a stranger, she's never met this guy in her entire life, he walks in and says, "Take what you've got, that's all you've got and make me a meal, I am the man of God, I am from the God of Israel." Jesus banished disease from the whole land of Palestine and they put Him on a cross. You can take all the miracle workers, all the so-called miracle workers, all the demonic miracle workers from Jannes and Jambres and the Egyptian magicians, all the way down to Simon Magus in the New Testament, you can take all the oracles of Delphi and all the historical supposed black magicians and white magicians and bring them all together, you can take all the hocus-pocus faith healers and TV evangelists, line them all up, have them do their whole gig of miracles and when they're all done with all their miracles whether they're true or false, they do not prove that Jesus Christ can save someone from hell. So they fled to Egypt in order to save Jesus. And Jesus was saying to those Jews, "Let me tell you something, you may be Jews, you may be part of Israel, you may be the people of the covenants and the people of the Messiah, but I'll tell you this, God will save an outcast Gentile widow who admits her spiritual destitution before He'll save you.". Others just refused to believe because they preferred their own way darkness. 83-184. And they rose up and cast Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff. 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. They were His relatives and His friends and His neighbors? 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. 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. How to get right with God: By water or the Spirit? They're getting angrier by the moment. She gives testimony. May He, in grace, save many sinners even today. That is the last thing they were about to do. One preacher titled a sermon on this, "Seven ducks in a dirty pond." Light has dawned.[6]. Let me tell you something, there's nothing worse than spiritual pride, is there? This is not an honest question. If He does a miracle, does that prove that He can give you eternal life and take you to heaven? 1 Tradition marks out the route which Joseph took into Egypt to have been by way of Hebron, Gaza, and the desert; which, as the most direct w r ay, is very likely the true one. We sent you an email. He told him to take Mary and Jesus back to Israel. They hurried him unceremoniously out of the town. In fact, John himself was greatly perplexed because John the Baptist, soon after the beginning of the ministry of Jesus, was taken prisoner. In John 1:46, Nathanael reveals that the city was unimportant when he said, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? They were unsympathetic to that, they were too proud, too self-righteous, they were too skeptical because they were in a self-defense mode. Oh boy, you're sitting in the synagogue, you're saying, "This is not going well. They were noble. 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. "I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah." Acts 2:22 And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. Salvation is available for the poor, the prisoners, the blind and the oppressed. John 18:7. Listen. Those who claim that these children were not the offspring of Mary do so without proof. So the people at the end of the food chain get nothing, so widows are on the brink of death. This is even more amazing. No. To beseech Him to return and save us, if we have thoughtlessly or wilfully slighted Him. The Journeys of Isaac, Jacob & Joseph, Jacob cheats Esau and flees to Mesopotamia, 25. That's not a problem for Him. We know that He did that because in verse 21 it says, "He only began by saying, 'Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." They may be passive Christians. Nazareth turned its back on Jesus. The answer is that people who don't believe when they know the facts don't believe for one reason. notwithstanding the many instances in old times of sons illustrious sprung from ignoble fathers; as David was the son of a husbandman, Jesse . One scone, if you will, one biscuit. We are worse than a Syrian Gentile leper. Malachi & Joel await the Day of the LORD, 48. He was sent to Zarephath in the land of Sidon to a woman who was a widow there. 1. p. 133. Mark. Here at Grace to You Europe we take our data protection responsibilities very seriously and, as you would expect, have undertaken a significant programme of work to ensure that we are ready for this important legislative change. Those are the only people He can save. Chapter 4 verse 14, He returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit. They went to the synagogue. 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. 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). He was a Gentile. There was never a preacher like Him. We also know in John 1 He was there to call some of His disciples. 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