They worshiped the true and living God. 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. Jesus went out from there and came into His hometown; and His disciples followed Him. 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. They continued to reject the apostles even after Jesus left. 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. God offers nothing to people who are content with their own condition, except judgment. Since Jesus was the God-man who had divine power for healing, the passage should not be understood as an inability to perform miracles. His words captured the moment in a way that was shocking and they still grip us with their power and their force. From the Kingdom of Israel to the Exile, 5. A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation. Because we dont want you to incur expenditure for which you are not prepared, could you please confirm whether you are willing to pay this charge, if necessary? That's what He did. You know how the Jews in the synagogue that day that they could have known that Jesus was Messiah? Leprosy is a sort of a categorical word. Is God really truly God? What went wrong? Accordingly, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions in order to comply with GDPR. They would never accept the fact that they were the poor, prisoners, blind, and oppressed. Great speakers making great speeches have always won over the minds and hearts of their hearers. It's true the reputation of Jesus had been growing. but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus. There is no hint in these passages that these men were not Marys sons. In brief: Jesus returned to Nazareth, the town of his youth. All we have here is just a summation. Some miraculous way He just was gone. He says the same thing as recorded in Matthew 13:57 and Mark 6:4. 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. They didn't question that. Huh. Go over there in this dirty river and just duck yourself seven times. As a result, very few people came to Jesus for healing, and very few miracles were performed. He was saying the Messiah was there in their midst and they were hearing Him speak. 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. If they wanted salvation, they had to confess their spiritual destitution, their spiritual poverty, their spiritual blindness, their spiritual bondage, their spiritual oppression. Galilee was ruled by Archelaus's brother, Herod Antipas. The people in Nazareth did not approve of His message. We are worse than a Syrian Gentile leper. 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. That is a judgment of 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). Jesus, just before his public ministry began, left his boyhood home in Nazareth and took up residence in the city. The Romano-Jewish world of the New Testament, 22. Deuteronomy 13 said that if you have a false prophet, you can do that, kill him. . But He had done some miracles there as well as the miracle of the wedding at Cana when He made some wine out of nothing. On the return, Joseph was further instructed in a dream to take the family to Nazareth. So the word is beginning to grow about Him. The MacArthur New Testament Commentary. Very importantly the Messiah is to have the full power of the Spirit of God upon Him. 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. Just give your life to Him, He'll prove He can. The day of salvation was present. We will suffer just because we serve Jesus. 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. Jesus did not return because the crowd was large. 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. They started asking one another, Where did He get these things? "I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah." 1. Jesus banished disease from the whole land of Palestine and they put Him on a cross. Mary legally remained with Joseph until Jesus was 12 years old. When King Herod fell sick and died, an angel appeared to Joseph with instructions. Sidon was Gentile territory on the north coast of Israel, Tyre and Sidon, the two familiar cities. For the word nazar signifies to separate, to consecrate, to crown. Then the people added another insult and rejection. Consequently, Nazareth became Jesus hometown. 2 Timothy 2:3(NASB), Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. The wise men (Magi) from the East, guided by a star (an angel), arrive to worship the King of Kings with Mary in attendance (verse 11). Matthew 1:25(NASB). For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly. And the prophet comes to her and you can read the story in 1 Kings 17, I wish we had time to do it, we don't. He was sent to Zarephath in the land of Sidon to a woman who was a widow there. 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. Jeremiah 9:23-24. What it does do is affirm the faith of those who believe. Many religious leaders rejected Him, but not all of them. They enjoy controversy and conflict. 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.' And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. They were unsympathetic to that, they were too proud, too self-righteous, they were too skeptical because they were in a self-defense mode. How did it turn so badly? 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. 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. III. Scripture tells of Joseph returning to Nazareth, avoiding any further residence in Judea. And you know what happened? Or eternal life in God's kingdom? During Jesuss childhood, the most important town in Galilee was Sepphoris, located 4 miles / 6 km to the north of Nazareth (see Map 4). The Journey continues from Sinai to Moab, The Israelites defeat King Sihon and King Og, The Israelites defeat the kings of Midian, Canaan is divided among the twelve tribes, 28. There were many synagogues and this was His boyhood synagogue with all the familiar faces there. 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. All of a sudden bedlam broke loose in the crowded synagogue. Now God cares about widows. But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God. A new nation? Here is an enemy, a Gentile, somebody who has sacked and attacked and killed and plundered Israel and he's a leper. It could include a proverb or an axiom. The Jewish World of the Old Testament, Sources of the History of Israel and Judah. how many times did jesus celebrate passover. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: He will be called a Nazarene. 12:42 says many did believe, but they kept it private, for fear the Pharisees would exclude them from the . They found a place, a brow of a hill in which the city had been built in order to throw Him down the cliff. Mark 6:5-6(NASB). You can see all the miracles under the sun, false miracles or whatever, you can see the whole parade of stuff. That He was going to cause people to fall as well as to rise? [11] Jesus returns to his home-town of Nazareth, and preaches in the synagogue (Lk 4:16). Jesus did not return because it was a large wonderful city. Everybody who rejects Jesus Christ as Messiah and Savior rejects Him for the very same reason and what that reason is will become clear to you this morning by the words of Jesus in the text of our message. After the wise men leave, Joseph is told (in a dream) to flee to Egypt (verse 13). Well that's something like what the Jews in the Nazareth synagogue experienced that day. Early in Jesus ministry He relocated His family (apparently after His father had died), from Nazareth to Capernaum (John 2:12-13). It's never different. 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. Sepphoris was an important trading centre, situated on the main route inland from the Mediterranean port of Ptolemais (Akko / Acre) to Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Let me tell you this, folks. They never did. 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 child's life are dead.". They chose not to. They were unsympathetic to His message, which was that if you want to have salvation, you've got to see your spiritual bankruptcy, and your spiritual destitution and the true condition of your heart. Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in Your hometown as well."' Huh. Jesus did not return to Nazareth because the city was important. 11 And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased." 12 At once the Spirit sent him out into We would like to believe that You can take the spiritually poor and make them rich, the spiritually bound and make them free, the spiritually blind and make them see, the spiritually oppressed and fearful and deliver them, we'd like to believe that, could You please spin up in the air and do a cartwheel or two in space and come back down? 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. 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." His reputation was gathering by the time He came to this synagogue in Nazareth where He launches His year and a half Galilean ministry. (123:0.6) By the first of October Joseph had convinced Mary and all their friends that it was best for them to return to Nazareth. Ethbaal means "Baal is alive." They tended to be disfiguring diseases, usually contagious diseases. They were noble. Ahab became a Baal worshiper, a worshiper of Baal. 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. There is a raging war between good and evil in our homes, churches, and nations. 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. When the family returned, they settled in Nazareth, a city in the northern part of Israel in a region known as Galilee. 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. Those who claim that these children were not the offspring of Mary do so without proof. There are some Christians, however, who are warriors. They chose to throw up a smoke screen in their minds and Jesus read their minds. He cares about righteousness. 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). 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. In the synagogue, a man with an evil spirit shouts out, Jesus of Nazareth! All they could think about was that they were below Gentiles. How could God ignore the Jews of Israel? It's not going to convince you. He was a very bad ruler and Joseph was afraid. Mary and the family's trip to and from Egypt is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy (Hosea 11:1). 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. Text, maps & photos (unless otherwise stated) by Chris & Jenifer Taylor 2023. Remember him? And if he's not, I'll just have one less meal and die half a day sooner. Learn: I. They couldn't equivocate on the majesty of His oratory. And then He proceeded to exposit the passage, recited there in verses 18 and 19. there were many widows. One scone, if you will, one biscuit. They couldn't see themselves as spiritual lepers. Her son got sick and died, remember? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? 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. 2 Timothy 3:12(NASB). Do you see it? If I give it to him and he is a man of God, then I'll have life. And he starts to think about it and he had second thoughts. God has called us to be peacemakers (Matthew 5:9). It was never a question of miracles. They were like local churches in towns today, there are many in a given town. Answer (1 of 5): That was the Bethlehem to which Joseph was summoned, for it was the ancestral home of the family of King David the family to which both Joseph and his bride belonged. We infer, then, that the return was in the summer of 750, after a sojourn of three or four months. Mary and Joseph head home mistakenly leaving Jesus behind. Event in the life of Jesus given in the canonical gospels, Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth, Barnes, Timothy David. 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. Could you please fly up in the air and spin around, could you do a few healings? 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. Now this is worse. And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. 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. II. That's not a problem for Him. Sure death was frequent, men died in wars. Pretty good thinking, isn't it? And there were other miracles that occurred in Judea that must have been well known to the Galileans who were often down there for Passover and other feasts. How can we know the Messiah would be God incarnate? But it does nothing for those who don't because no miracles can prove that Jesus can save the sinner from hell. So it's a time in Israel, apostate, they're worshiping Baal, they've turned from the true God, the true and living God, they're worshiping false gods. Not only was Jesus the carpenter, but they also knew His family: Mary, James, Joses, Judas, and Simon. She took the little that she had, she gave it to the man of God and in return she got life, permanent life. And He said to them, 'No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, "Physician, heal yourself! The people in the synagogue responded as some might today. How about you? That He was going to be the reason for a sword to penetrate the heart of sweet Mary, His mother. 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 will discover later in our study that the religious leaders would join together and devise a plot to get rid of Him. From a human perspective, I am personally amazed that Jesus returned to a group of people who had wanted to murder Him. 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. At the end of His year and a half ministry in Galilee, Jesus came back again to the synagogue in Nazareth and again they said, "This is Joseph's son and we know His mother and we know His sisters and we know His brothers. It just means that the buzz was positive, just rippling through that packed synagogue. That's an analogy of spiritual life and supply. The account of Jesus second visit to the city of Nazareth begins in Mark 6:1. Zephaniah & Habakkuk foretell Judah's fall, Zephaniah warns of the punishment of Judah, Habakkuk asks why the cruel Babylonians succeed, 44. Remember that? Well they were in awe of the gracious words which were falling from His lips. 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. Bernegger, P. M. "Affirmation of Herod's Death in 4 B.C. So if you look at 1 Kings 17 you see the story. They may be passive Christians. 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. Paul's Journey to Ephesus, Philippi & Corinth, The Ephesians are filled with the Holy Spirit, Paul meets violent opposition in Jerusalem, 13. They were speaking well of Him. Most of the Nazarenes were royalty. It all began so assuringly. Look at verse 22, "All were speaking well of Him." She says, "The Lord God of Israel lives." 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). Malachi & Joel await the Day of the LORD, 48. It's actually the Greek word parabol, which means parable, but parabol has a broad meaning. That was just how He started. How many journeys did Mary and Joseph take before and after Jesus' birth? 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). For one thing, in Bible times people were often identified by their native area or place of residence. To take heed how we reject Jesus. There's only one reason why people who know the truth of Jesus don't believe. That's the issue. 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