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 that is absolutely intolerable to them, to go to someone who is a life-long Jew, a life-long attender of the synagogue, a serious devout Jew and say, "You're no better off than a pagan, you're no better off than an outcast Gentile leper," is unthinkable because they're so committed to the self-righteousness that's a part of a works system. We infer, then, that the return was in the summer of 750, after a sojourn of three or four months. No. No prophet is welcome in his hometown, no prophet is dektos, accepted in his hometown. So if you look at 1 Kings 17 you see the story. Many times the preacher had stood up in the synagogue and said, "The blessed hour of the Messiah is to come." And they're so angry with Him because He's insistent on the fact that unless they humble themselves like a Syrian leper, unless they see themselves as no better than a Syrian leper, no better than a pagan Gentile woman, unless they see themselves as no better than outcasts, they aren't going to get saved. In brief: Jesus returned to Nazareth, the town of his youth. Jesus would have been between two and five years old. We don't like that story at all. Let's go back to verse 16 in Luke 4 and pick up the scene where it really begins. For this man is performing many signs. The initial response to His speaking in the synagogue was positive. You can't get saved unless you're willing to be humiliated and realize your sinful condition. 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.". Matthew 8-15 . Jesus is our example! Or eternal life in God's kingdom? She figured that out, by the way. This is one of those gripping and powerful portions of the Bible. The following words should ring in our ears and be memorized. It's actually shocking. There's just one little negative statement in all these chapters up to here, and that was in chapter 2 verse 34 and those searching words by Simeon, that old man in the temple, who said to Mary, "This child is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel and for a sign to be opposed, and a sword will pierce even your own soul." Help Grace to You bring important resources like this to people in your community and beyond, free of charge. Therefore, He was prevented from healing many. These are statements indicating great importance. 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. 13:7.) Some of them probably were wondering about that. Now, you know, if she had been in the synagogue at Nazareth, she would have probably said, "Oh no, no, no. When Jesus had lived there, He was the carpenter. That is the last thing they were about to do. 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. 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. The account of Jesus second visit to the city of Nazareth begins in Mark 6:1. 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 refused forgiveness because they wanted to keep their sins. Well they were in awe of the gracious words which were falling from His lips. No Sabbath ever began so wondrously and no Sabbath ever ended so tragically. I have to take my desperation, my destitution, my disease, I have to go over there. The power of the Holy Spirit - for everyone? Great speakers making great speeches have always won over the minds and hearts of their hearers. Please be aware that these items are sent out from our office in the UK. So the word is beginning to grow about Him. I greatly enjoyed our time together and I believe we'll have more time in the future, and I look forward to that. If I give it to him and he is a man of God, then I'll have life. Another example is Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899), an American evangelist, who also lacked formal education. Malachi & Joel await the Day of the LORD, 48. Deuteronomy 13 said that if you have a false prophet, you can do that, kill him. 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. And it's true of this rabbi, a very gracious man, very knowledgeable man. They hated their oppressors. "And I say to you in truth," very much like the prior statement in verse 24, "Truly I say to you." This son had a slightly less violent disposition than Archelaus. And he says to her, first of all, "Could you get me some water?" You will never know whether Jesus can save your soul from hell, give you new life, recreate your soul, plant His Holy Spirit there, forgive your sin and send you to heaven until you give your life to Him. Her son got sick and died, remember? Here is an enemy, a Gentile, somebody who has sacked and attacked and killed and plundered Israel and he's a leper. Jesus is brought up in Galilee (ruled by another of Herods sons) and becomes known as Jesus of Nazareth. Early in Jesus ministry He relocated His family (apparently after His father had died), from Nazareth to Capernaum (John 2:12-13). 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. We don't know what brow of it. And Elisha says to him, "The God of Israel is willing to heal you. If Jesus were alive today, the questions might be something like this, What commentaries does Jesus own? I think Jesus is making a bit of a concession. It's true the reputation of Jesus had been growing. 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. This was the time for the age of salvation. We do know that following the death of King Herod the Great, the angel of the Lord appeared once again to Joseph instructing him to go into the land of Israel, for they are dead which sought the young child's life (Matthew 2:20b). It is very possible that the people had come because they had heard that Jesus would be speaking. Joseph, Mary and Jesus return from Egypt to their home at Nazareth in Galilee. All of a sudden bedlam broke loose in the crowded synagogue. You can see all the miracles under the sun, false miracles or whatever, you can see the whole parade of stuff. A new nation? 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. She made the little cake, the prophet ate it and the next thing that happened was her barrel was never empty. Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in Your hometown as well."' Joseph's fears about living within Judea are confirmed when God sends him a warning in a dream. Impeccable understanding of truth He possessed, pure and holy passion for that truth, flawless reasoning, accurate interpretation, unmatched dexterity with the language. Instead, we should notice that very few people came to Jesus for healing. But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God. God has not called us to peace at all costs. Though still young, he has the favor of God and men. After the wise men leave, Joseph is told (in a dream) to flee to Egypt (verse 13). 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. On the return, Joseph was further instructed in a dream to take the family to Nazareth. Light has dawned.[6]. Gray.) We have witnessed this fact in the pages of the gospels. We tend to highly value someone we do not know, only later to be often disappointed with them. Lk. She is a pagan Gentile widow in the midst of a pagan godless area but believes in the true and living God. Jesus teachings and the rumors about His miracles should have encouraged them to respond, but they did not. A later Roman mansion dating from c.400AD has a beautiful mosaic floor depicting the luxuriant landscape of the Nile Valley. He told him to take Mary and Jesus back to Israel. . She gives testimony. Their journey from Bethlehem to what is Egyptian-controlled territory (which was outside the jurisdiction of Herod) was at least 65 kilometers (40 miles). It could include a proverb or an axiom. Background Reading: The Return from Egypt. Mark. And you know what the message to them was? It's never different. J. Vernon McGee. It's always the same. Their message was simple. You're saying, "Well, why should we believe Him, after all, we don't have any proof that He's the Messiah." And so that's what they say. Herod's son, Archelaus, only ruled until 6 CE, when Judea became a province ruled from Rome. How am I going to know that that's true unless I do what He says? And there may have been a little bit of town rivalry going on as well. Galilee of the Gentiles: We will suffer for living a godly life. Herod's cruel actions fulfill a prophecy regarding the slaughter of innocent children (Jeremiah 31:15). They were the godly, the chosen, the true worshipers, the legalists, the ceremonialists, the covenantalists. We're in shock, aren't we? He is, Just one of us! Surely, He is nothing special. In the Greek text, a definite article appears before carpenter. This implies that Jesus had been the carpenter or craftsman of the town. 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. Then I knew. 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. They persecuted the apostle Paul, and the Roman politicians persecuted Christians for many years after the apostles. 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 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. 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. R. Kent Hughes. Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Bernegger, P. M. "Affirmation of Herod's Death in 4 B.C. 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 just was supernaturally filled all the time. Jewish religious rituals Wise men visit Jerusalem The holy family flee to Egypt The holy family return to Nazareth Jesus grows up 4. Jesus did not return to Nazareth because the city was important. Now that they are reunited, Jesus returns home to Nazareth with Joseph and Mary and continues subject to them. Jesus demonstrated an important truth for us God has not called us to avoid conflict in the ministry. He returned because He was concerned about the people. 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, You're saying, "We don't have any proof. 2 Timothy 3:12(NASB). 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. On the Sabbath, he begins to teach the people. 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. Is God really truly God? They did not realize that schools can educate only the mind. And you remember the story? Let me put it to you simply. The day of salvation was present. Matthew 1:25(NASB). 2 Timothy 2:3(NASB), Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. Later Jesus decided to return again. 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. Oh boy, you're sitting in the synagogue, you're saying, "This is not going well. The young preacher leaned over and apologized to Dr. Scofield for the small number who had come to hear his preaching and teaching. Elijah comes on the scene in 1 Kings 17. And you could have paraded before me an infinite number of miracles. 2. How do I know you're a man of God? 1 Peter 2:19-20(NASB). 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. It must have bothered some of them that Jesus stopped there and didn't say anything about the day of vengeance. Parallel Verses John must have sat in prison and wondered when the Messiah was going to come and destroy Herod, when He was going to bring the vengeance of God on Herod, open the prison doors and let John out. 12:42 says many did believe, but they kept it private, for fear the Pharisees would exclude them from the . In our next study we will discover that conflict and ministry go together. That's the issue. It's never a question of miracles ever because miracles don't prove anything about that. Mary legally remained with Joseph until Jesus was 12 years old. Joseph found that one of King Herods sons, Archelaus, was ruling in his place in Judea. You've got a lot of widows in the land. 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. This website uses cookies to monitor usage (see Privacy Statement in drop-down box under 'Contact Us'). Jonah goes to Nineveh & Nahum condemns it, Jonah is thrown overboard to appease the gods, 42. John 9:16(NASB). And you know what happened? 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." 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. They chose to throw up a smoke screen in their minds and Jesus read their minds. 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. This woman in the land of Sidon, hang on, is a Gentile. 6:2, seq.) Sometimes we think that trouble is a sign of Gods judgment or that we did something wrong. Throughout the movie, the wave of young people and/or hippies who "came to Jesus" in the late 60s and early 70s as part of the Jesus movement revival, get "baptized" by the hundreds in the . Familiarity breeds its normal contempt. Just give your life to Him, He'll prove He can. Oh they said, "Do some things like You did down there. This is the outcast of all outcasts. In Matthew's Gospel, the narrative suggests that after his baptism he had spent time in the desert, the "holy city" (Jerusalem) and a mountainous area before returning to Galilee. 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. Some Bible scholars had noted differences in the birth narrative story of the flight. Copyright Like The Master Ministries. Why is He bringing that ugly story up? And the first thing that he does is he announces a drought. There's only one reason why people who know the truth of Jesus don't believe. For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly. Text, maps & photos (unless otherwise stated) by Chris & Jenifer Taylor 2023. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. Verse 30, instant calm, "But passing through their midst He went His way." Could you please fly up in the air and spin around, could you do a few healings? 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. And that'sthat'sthat was not the real issue with these people because they don't even question that Jesus can do miracles. One scone, if you will, one biscuit. ", Jesus: apocalyptic prophet of the new millennium, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_of_the_family_of_Jesus_to_Nazareth&oldid=1097473319, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 10 July 2022, at 22:59. 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. He was the Savior of the world. Should Jesus have forced many people to be healed anyway? 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. 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. 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. So Jesus is the fulfillment of this prophecy, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He anointed Me." They hated that message so violently because they would not be humiliated. There is a raging war between good and evil in our homes, churches, and nations. John 18:7. Don't confuse it. He was saying the Messiah was there in their midst and they were hearing Him speak. 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. What went wrong? Go over there in this dirty river and just duck yourself seven times. Ahab became a Baal worshiper, a worshiper of Baal. How to get right with God: By water or the Spirit? 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. So here's Elijah, he's in the midst of this. Or eternal life in God's kingdom? They couldn't equivocate on the masterful way in which He had communicated the message unlike anything they had ever, ever heard, not even close to anything they had ever heard. It isn't, it doesn't, it didn't. We've had four chapters. Today is the day of salvation as the apostle Paul put it in writing to the Corinthians. This study describes this second return. Elisha followed Elijah and that was a time, 850 to 790 B.C., disease was a major problem. Both of the gospels which describe the nativity of Jesus agree that he was born in Bethlehem and then later moved with his family to live in Nazareth. That was not a question in their minds. How can we know the Messiah would be God incarnate? I have to say as a footnote here. Ask Him. Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, What are we doing? 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?" A street in Sepphoris (Diocaesarea) (Carole Raddato). Verse 22, "And all were speaking well of Him and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from His lips and they were saying, 'Is this not Joseph's son?' The word had come back of what He had done there. We also know in John 1 He was there to call some of His disciples. But if he is the man of God, and if God did send him, then I have life." The man who carried Jesus' cross when He was no longer able to, for example, was called Simon of Cyrene, noting his name and his place of residence ( Luke 23:26 ). When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.[2]. Food supply was low. They did not reject Him because they lacked the truth but because they rejected the truth. They were familiar, believe me, with 1 Kings 17, very familiar with it. He knew that. Consequently, Nazareth became Jesus hometown. c 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. They weren't about to do that. And He wondered at their unbelief. It was in this generation that He came and out of all that generation, the blessed of people because it was to them that He came, to that small little group in that small town in that small synagogue. She knew her condition. . They responded by attempting to murder Him. 9 At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 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. The whole nation is worshiping Baal. It's a broad term. Jesus went out from there and came into His hometown; and His disciples followed Him. 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 . As a result, very few people came to Jesus for healing, and very few miracles were performed. She had a great attitude, she knew about his leprosy and she said to him, "You need to go find the man of God, Elisha, because God can heal you." "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, 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. And so He says to them in verse 23, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal yourself! If you're going to trust somebody to be a physician, you want some proof that he canhe can heal. That's always the problem. Exodus 22, Deuteronomy 10, through the Psalms, Isaiah 1, many, many places and God has a special heart for widows. Fire) an unquenchable fire of judgment." 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. Why? Salvation is available. That is the message of verses 5-6. And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. The answer is obviously, No! Only a few people came to Him because the hearts of the others were unbelieving. I mean, they must havesome of them must have wondered why He stopped reading there in verse 19. 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. Did you come to destroy us? (Luke 4:34) Jesus commands the evil spirit to leave the man, and after throwing him to the ground, it leaves him without harming him. [9][10], Cornelius a Lapide comments on this issue, writing: "In Hebrew nazir, or nozeri, written with zain, meaning separate, holy, consecrate, crowned, religious, because Christ, as man, being separated from every other thing, was hypostatically and wholly united to the WORD. The words that fell from His lips were like words they had never heard from anyone ever. We just can't buy this message. Now this is worse. 3. Registered User The judgment comes and it is a judgment on the idolatry, the Baal worship of Ahab and the people of Israel. 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. fulfills the prophecy found in Micah 5:2. GDPR is the new European privacy regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and the equivalent legislation across the EU Member States. He just drops out of nowhere. The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, They were like Paul, and I read it in Philippians 3, they were circumcised and they had their tribal pedigree and they were of the people of Israel and they were traditionalists and they were ceremonialists and they were zealous for the law and they kept the law as blamelessly as they could. 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. Sure death was frequent, men died in wars. But more than wondering about that, that might have been a minor thing, they were really struck it says in verse 22 by the gracious words which were falling from His lips. We are told that Jesus was surprised by their unbelief. This one is at the beginning. There He grew up from a child into an adult and then started His ministry. They all knew him. And the answer to that question obviously is a very important answer. Jesus' birth, which occurs on or around the Feast of Trumpets (September 2 in 5 B.C.) Well, that's what I told you last week. I understand that humanly speaking that that's a factor. I need to see something so that I can believe.". How could God ignore the Jews of Israel? 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. Mary And Joseph Return To Nazareth From Alexandria. 1. How long did it take Jesus to walk from Nazareth to Jerusalem? If Jesus did a miracle, does that prove that He could, listen carefully, save sinners? So wondrously and no Sabbath ever ended so tragically I think Jesus is making a bit of a bedlam. 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