The pope pointed to the Gospel of Matthew to offer advice for how to overcome the three types of temptations, as Jesus did when he was tempted by the devil after 40 days of fasting in the desert . You know, the Lord had said, "You know, I come to save, this is it. We must not avoid spiritual conflict when wrong has occurred just because our culture or others in the church say conflict is wrong. Omniscience, He read their minds. John 18:7. Let me tell you something, there's nothing worse than spiritual pride, is there? B. Jesus's Second Visit to Nazareth (Very Late in the Galilean Ministry) Scripture: Matthew 13:54-58 and Mark 6:1-6 Notes: These two passages narrate a visit toward the close of the Galilean ministry. 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. Nazareth is the hometown of Mary and Joseph. Thats the situation. Copyright Like The Master Ministries. How to get right with God: Sacrifice or Faith? She probably thought like this, "Well, I only have one little cup left, one little bit of oil, that's all I've got. Isaiah 9:1 says, "but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan." Galilee can be translated to mean wheel or revolution.Though much effort was made by the Roman Empire to keep it a peaceful territory, word of Jesus and His followers . May He, in grace, save many sinners even today. It just kept getting filled and filled and filled. 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. That doesn't prove anything. That was not a question in their minds. And Jesus wasn't finished. . Jesus' birth, which occurs on or around the Feast of Trumpets (September 2 in 5 B.C.) This can't be the Messiah." He knew that. Please, we would like to believe in You, prove You're Messiah. Paul's Journey to Ephesus, Philippi & Corinth, The Ephesians are filled with the Holy Spirit, Paul meets violent opposition in Jerusalem, 13. They all knew him. 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. No Sabbath ever began so wondrously and no Sabbath ever ended so tragically. And they may not know everything there is to know and their faith may not be full, but if they'll just come in their desperation and say, 'I don't have a choice, here's all I have and see what I can do with it.' in Nazareth, Mary and Joseph had to return to Judah for the Roman-mandated census. Protecting The Most Valuable Treasure On Earth. The excavated remains of a 6th century synagogue include well-preserved mosaics showing Abraham entertaining three visitors (Genesis 18:1-16), the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22:1-18), the consecration of Aaron (Exodus 29:1-26) and the signs of the Zodiac. I'm going to die anyway, what have I got to lose?" So the word is beginning to grow about Him. This study describes this second return. How to get right with God: By water or the Spirit? Later Jesus decided to return again. He was the greatest preacher who ever opened His mouth. He was the Savior of the world. Most scholarship places the date of Herod's death around 4 BCE.[6][7][8]. They did not realize that schools can educate only the mind. Therefore, they rejected Him. As we have already stated, sometime later in Jesus ministry, He returned to Nazareth to tell the people that He was the Messiah. Malachi & Joel await the Day of the LORD, 48. Huh. They don't even like the fact that He's telling these stories. He didn't, because that was future. Psalm 146:9, "God, the Lord who relieves widows." I understand that no prophet is welcome in his hometown. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.[2]. And there may have been a little bit of town rivalry going on as well. They did not come because they had found reasons for rejecting Him. Was Jesus an outspoken rabbi or was he God? So, that's what they want. There is a raging war between good and evil in our homes, churches, and nations. They had plenty. Gray.) . 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? The text of 1 Kings 17 indicates that. He loved the people. The people who are at the bottom of the food chain are the widows because they're charity cases. That is the testimony of history and the gospel accounts. 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. She knew her condition. 1. p. 133. So he goes over there and he does his seven ducks in the dirty river and guess what? 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. She gives testimony. He cares about righteousness. John 11:47(NASB). 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 . Scripture tells of Joseph returning to Nazareth, avoiding any further residence in Judea. Don't You come tell us You're the doctor if weif we don't have some proof.". They started asking one another, Where did He get these things? But if he is the man of God, and if God did send him, then I have life." They knew that this was speech like there had never been. You're saying, "Well, why should we believe Him, after all, we don't have any proof that He's the Messiah." 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. 2 Timothy 3:12(NASB). Listen. Paul's Letters to Ephesus, Colossae & Philippi, 17. 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 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. He commanded a set of troops that were always raiding Israel. We can just imagine their thoughts. Messiah? 22 But when he heard that Archelaus, who ruled from 4BC to AD6, was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Jesus returned knowing that the majority of the people in Nazareth did not welcome Him, but He returned anyway. For one thing, in Bible times people were often identified by their native area or place of residence. 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. I'm in poverty. In their minds they were the respectable. After Herod dies in early 4 B.C., Joseph has a dream where an angel tells him it is safe to return to Israel. This woman in the land of Sidon, hang on, is a Gentile. There are many widows. Isaiah predicts the fall of Israel & Judah, Prophecies written before the fall of Jerusalem, Isaiah reassures King Ahaz of God's support, Troubled times and a glorious future kingdom, 40. In John 4:22, Jesus identifies himself as a Jew when speaking to the Samaritan woman. How many journeys did Mary and Joseph take before and after Jesus' birth? 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. His sisters remained in Nazareth, perhaps because they were already married (Mark 6:3). Now this is worse. They did not reject Him because they lacked the truth but because they rejected the truth. Mary And Joseph Return To Nazareth From Alexandria. Haggai & Zechariah encourage re-building, Haggai urges the exiles to re-build the Temple, Prophesies about the coming of the Messiah, 47. To beseech Him to return and save us, if we have thoughtlessly or wilfully slighted Him. Jesus, just before his public ministry began, left his boyhood home in Nazareth and took up residence in the city. This study describes this second return. Exodus 22, Deuteronomy 10, through the Psalms, Isaiah 1, many, many places and God has a special heart for widows. 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. Acts 2:22 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. And they just put up a wall. He was sent to Zarephath in the land of Sidon to a woman who was a widow there. It's never a question of miracles ever because miracles don't prove anything about that. 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. "Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in Your home town as well." [1], The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. Why did He leave the vengeance out? there were many widows. 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. They never got over this, by the way. There was never an orator like Him. The city is part of Galilee, which is ruled by a another son of Herod the Great named Herod Antipas. Bernegger, P. M. "Affirmation of Herod's Death in 4 B.C. Why will some churches select a man who has recently graduated from seminary, whom they do not know, and ask him to become their pastor even if they have a man who is highly gifted and capable of being their pastor sitting among them? Mary and the family's trip to and from Egypt is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy (Hosea 11:1). There were many widows. It's actually the Greek word parabol, which means parable, but parabol has a broad meaning. 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. Raymond E. Brown claimed that the narratives are "contrary to each other in a number of details."[12]. Wherefore the religious, under the old law, who separated themselves from wine and from the world, and consecrated themselves to God, were called Nazarites. 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). Crossway Books. 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. Ethbaal, he was so devoted to Baal He named himself after Baal. Here is an enemy, a Gentile, somebody who has sacked and attacked and killed and plundered Israel and he's a leper. 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. The rich tapestry of testimony from angels, from Gabriel, from the angels that gave testimony to the shepherds in the field, a rich testimony from godly men and women like Zacharias and Elizabeth and Joseph and Mary and Simeon and Anna and even the testimony of the prophet himself, John the Baptist, and it's all been positive up to now. They soon begin their travel back to Judea and Bethlehem. 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. Warfare comes with serving God because the Evil One is waging spiritual warfare (Ephesians 6:12). Food supply was low. JESUS VISITS NAZARETH AND IS REJECTED. It's true the reputation of Jesus had been growing. In verse 24 He says, "Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown." Those who never suffer are probably not in the battle. 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. They enjoy controversy and conflict. Conflict is part of the Christian life. 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. Paul's Journey to Phrygia, Macedonia & Archaia, 11. They chose not to. (Gen. 49:2) And as Joseph, after his imprisonment, was made lord of Egypt, so Christ, after His death, was made lord of the universe. They were the people of God. Their message was simple. Why did Jesus return to a city that had previously attempted to murder Him? Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. Is God really truly God? They were the blessed, the blessed of all nations, the blessed of all generations. Did He attend a pastors conference or get His material from some famous rabbi or pastor? Many today think that a seminary education is important to prepare men for ministry. Paul's Letters to Galatia & Thessalonica, The risen Lord Jesus appears to his followers, Christ's Victory Parade & the New Covenant, 15. And as I said, it is a concession. 1. As a result, very few people came to Jesus for healing, and very few miracles were performed. How am I going to know that that's true unless I do what He says? It's always the same. 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. 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. Where did He get His wisdom? 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, From the Kingdom of Israel to the Exile, 5. 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. So, it was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, Jesus will be called a Nazarene, even though He was born in Bethlehem. However, the rest of the passage reveals that Jesus did perform healings when people came to Him. It is because they do not see themselves as the poor, the blind, the prisoners, and the oppressed. On one of his raids he took captive, this is in the stories in 2 Kings 5, first fourteen verses, you can read it yourself, he took back this girl, one of his captives and she became a servant in his house to help his wife. The area was the home of the father of Jezebel. I mean, they must havesome of them must have wondered why He stopped reading there in verse 19. Capernaum was only twenty miles away. They didn't even take into consideration that the Father out of heaven had said, "This is My beloved Son.". The Journeys of Isaac, Jacob & Joseph, Jacob cheats Esau and flees to Mesopotamia, 25. He spoke in the synagogue, but the townspeople did not like what he said. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you . He wasn't there for vengeance on anyone, He was there for salvation. The reason for rejecting the Lord has always been that men prefer their own way to His.[3]. The local people of Nazareth later called Jesus the carpenters son (see Matthew 13:55). After King Herod died, an angel of the Lord told Joseph to take Mary and Jesus back home to the land of Israel. It relates the return of Jesus to Galilee upon the imprisonment of John the Baptist. It's more of that "familiarity breeds contempt." Aged 12, Jesus goes to Jerusalem with his parents for the Jewish festival of Passover. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. So, Matthew seems to place the birth of Jesus quite a few years before 4 BCE. They tended to be disfiguring diseases, usually contagious diseases. We tend to highly value someone we do not know, only later to be often disappointed with them. Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? (See Numb. They weren't about to do that. They're not questioning that He did them, they know He did them. And I think there's a bit ofthere's a bit of mercy in that in Jesus' case. how many times did jesus celebrate passover. 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. And the first thing that he does is he announces a drought. When King Herod fell sick and died, an angel appeared to Joseph with instructions. Was Jesus an outspoken rabbi or was he God? Text, maps & photos (unless otherwise stated) by Chris & Jenifer Taylor 2023. Why? That, by the way, is a phrase He repeated a year and a half later when He came back again to that synagogue. This is a widow who believes in the true God. 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." But to come from Sidon, that is unthinkable. Instead, we should notice that very few people came to Jesus for healing. 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