They refused forgiveness because they wanted to keep their sins. Not only was Jesus the carpenter, but they also knew His family: Mary, James, Joses, Judas, and Simon. notwithstanding the many instances in old times of sons illustrious sprung from ignoble fathers; as David was the son of a husbandman, Jesse . There have been some noted pastors down through history who had no formal theological education, but they have been terrific spiritual examples. He was a soldier. III. Register. [1] Contents 1 Gospel of John 2 Gospel of Mark 3 Gospel of Matthew 4 Galilean ministry 5 References We can just imagine their thoughts. Sure death was frequent, men died in wars. The MacArthur New Testament Commentary. So, even John had talked about that. They were like local churches in towns today, there are many in a given town. Light has dawned.[6]. There are many widows. 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. The answer is obviously, No! Only a few people came to Him because the hearts of the others were unbelieving. Log In How to get right with God: By water or the Spirit? God sends Elijah in this midst of all this famine over to Zarephath, to this widow. And he says to her, first of all, "Could you get me some water?" Many times the preacher had said, "The people who are eyewitnesses of Messiah Himself will be greatly blessed." Deuteronomy 13 said that if you have a false prophet, you can do that, kill him. You know how the Jews in the synagogue that day that they could have known that Jesus was Messiah? That is the message of verses 5-6. They had never heard anything like it. 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. I believe that Jesus returned because He loved them, desired to see them believe in Him, and gain eternal life. . "Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in Your home town as well." Oh, man, did they hate this story. He has asked us to be at peace with all men as much as possible (Romans 12:18). We haven't seen anything like this in all these chapters all these months. The whole nation is worshiping Baal. Like his father, Archelaus rules with tyranny and cruelty. They were literally stunned by it. She knew her condition. The author of the book of Hebrew (7:14) informs that "it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah." Most of the Nazarenes were royalty. 83-184. Others just refused to believe because they preferred their own way darkness. 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. They were noble. 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. But I can only save the poor, and the prisoners, and the blind, and the oppressed. Don't confuse it. In their minds they were the respectable. Therefore, He was prevented from healing many. Therefore the return . So Jesus is the fulfillment of this prophecy, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He anointed Me." And there may have been a little bit of town rivalry going on as well. Its Hebrew name Zippori, meaning a bird reflected its lofty position looking out across Cana, Nazareth and the Bet Netofa Valley. Enter your email address and we will send you instructions on how to reset your password. 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. The people who are at the bottom of the food chain are the widows because they're charity cases. But Christ had no intention of overturning the power of Herod. Today is the day of salvation as the apostle Paul put it in writing to the Corinthians. This can't be the Messiah." Jeremiah 9:23-24. This study describes this second return. This is a widow who believes in the true God. 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? They gave their tithes. She took the little that she had, she gave it to the man of God and in return she got life, permanent life. So, that's what they want. What a day, what a day. . 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. 8 AD approx. The people in Nazareth did not approve of His message. Ahab became a Baal worshiper, a worshiper of Baal. p. 409. Lk. 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. All you have to do is go over to the river and go down seven times." He is informed of this because Herod the Great will soon issue a command that all male children two years old and younger, in and around Bethlehem, are to be put to death (Matthew 2:16). They don't even like the fact that He's telling these stories. They denied the light because they preferred darkness. The Israelites journey from Egypt to Mt Sinai, 26. The people in the synagogue responded as some might today. Capernaum was only twenty miles away. She says, "The Lord God of Israel lives." Be a good soldier! Heal some people, do some, you know" No that wasn't You know how they could have known if Jesus was the Messiah? For them, everything is a crusade. He told him to take Mary and Jesus back to Israel. [1][2][3] The Gospel of Luke, on the other hand, does not record anything about the flight to Egypt, but says that Joseph had been previously living in Nazareth,[4] and returned there after the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. 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. 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. 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. He has already been ministering almost a year in the south, in Judea, with a few visits to Galilee. 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. ", In verse 28, "All in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things." There is no hint in these passages that these men were not Marys sons. 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. We have witnessed this fact in the pages of the gospels. They were speaking well of Him. That, by the way, is a phrase He repeated a year and a half later when He came back again to that synagogue. Jonah goes to Nineveh & Nahum condemns it, Jonah is thrown overboard to appease the gods, 42. This article is also available and sold as a booklet. It's a way of saying, prove your claims. Father, this is such a powerful, powerful statement of the mission of the Messiah to save sinners. He makes a transition. However, as Mary and Joseph approach Judea, it is discovered that Herod Archelaus, the eldest surviving son of Herod the Great, is the new ruler of the area (Matthew 2:22). For one thing, in Bible times people were often identified by their native area or place of residence. In John 11:47 the Pharisees, the chief priests said, "This man is doing miracles." So here's Elijah, he's in the midst of this. 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 childs life are dead., 21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. They were like that Luke 18 Pharisee. So the people at the end of the food chain get nothing, so widows are on the brink of death. 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. The account of Jesus second visit to the city of Nazareth begins in Mark 6:1. 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. That is a judgment of God. What went wrong? God has not called us to peace at all costs. Thus says the LORD, Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me . It was now present, it was now in their midst. Jesus' childhood - left behind in Jerusalem. There's all kinds of instruction in the Old Testament to take care of widows. And all in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things. If I do what the man tells me to do, then I'll know whether he's the man of God, right? The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, It identifies various ancient skin diseases, everything from superficial diseases to serious diseases. They persecuted the apostle Paul, and the Roman politicians persecuted Christians for many years after the apostles. She knew that she was the poor, the prisoner, blind, and the oppressed. [2], Those who heard and saw Jesus did not reject Him for lack of evidence but in spite of overwhelming evidence. So the accumulated information about the miracles was growing and growing and nobody ever questioned that. Those who never suffer are probably not in the battle. Jesus is brought up in Galilee (ruled by another of Herods sons) and becomes known as Jesus of Nazareth. They hated that message so violently because they would not be humiliated. Did Jesus learn that from a tape, book, CD, or DVD? Paul's Letters to Ephesus, Colossae & Philippi, 17. After the death of his step-father sometime between his 12th and 30th birthday, Jesus continues to live in Nazareth until he journeys to Capernaum to begin his public ministry. 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 had married a woman named Jezebel. Oh they said, "Do some things like You did down there. 21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of . And she would only know if that was the man of God if she trusted him. Go over there in this dirty river and just duck yourself seven times. How do we know He's the Messiah? Please contact the publisher to obtain copies of this resource. And what they're saying is, you know, it's not our fault that we don't believe, Jesus, it's Your fault, it's all in Your control, it's Your fault if we don't believe, You just haven't done enough here to prove this, we just need more evidence. 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. That's not a problem for Him. Was Jesus an outspoken rabbi or was he God? The completed registration allows us to send order and donation receipts to the email address you provided. But all of a sudden on this Sabbath in the year 28, He was there. Now that they are reunited, Jesus returns home to Nazareth with Joseph and Mary and continues subject to them. There's a bit of a concession there. It is possible that He also returned to visit His sisters. Pick it up where we left off. They all knew Elijah, the great prophet of Israel. Instead, we should notice that very few people came to Jesus for healing. And the answer to that question obviously is a very important answer. But to come from Sidon, that is unthinkable. 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. A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation. It relates the return of Jesus to Galilee upon the imprisonment of John the Baptist. Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And we both take God very seriously and take His Word seriously. 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. And you could have paraded before me an infinite number of miracles. 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. 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. 1 Peter 2:20 tells us that we gain favor with God when we suffer for doing what is right. Malachi & Joel await the Day of the LORD, 48. They couldn't equivocate on the majesty of His oratory. All Rights Reserved. Some discredit those whom they know in favor of those they do not know. He commanded a set of troops that were always raiding Israel. John 1:11 says Jesus "came to his own, and his own did not receive him," in clear reference to the Jewish population in the Holy Land at the time. We pray in His name. We must not avoid spiritual conflict when wrong has occurred just because our culture or others in the church say conflict is wrong. Naaman was a commander-in-chief of a section known as Aram. Nelson Publishing Co.. pp. That's why they were so excited that He was going to speak in their synagogue. They even say it. The problem is we don't have proof. But then how could He possibly send His prophet to go minister to a Gentile widow in, of all places, Sidon? Text, maps & photos (unless otherwise stated) by Chris & Jenifer Taylor 2023. They're getting angrier by the moment. And it's a fair axiom. You can't get saved unless you're willing to be humiliated and realize your sinful condition. Why did He leave the vengeance out? Most scholarship places the date of Herod's death around 4 BCE.[6][7][8]. Dr. J. Vernon McGee makes this comment about Jesus return, There are certain men in Gods work who do not want to go to a small place to minister. 1. 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. Let me tell you this, folks. 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. The Journeys of Isaac, Jacob & Joseph, Jacob cheats Esau and flees to Mesopotamia, 25. 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. Let's see what He says, verse 25. 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. And He wondered at their unbelief. Matthew 2:19-23, The angel Gabriel spoke to Mary about the birth of Jesus, An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, Angels praised God for the birth of Jesus, Jesus at 40 days old was taken to the Temple, Magi traveled from the East to find Jesus, King Herod the Great plans how to kill Jesus, Timeline for Birth of Jesus The Christmas Story, Background Information Birth of Jesus The Christmas Story. Huh. So, too, was Joseph. Matthew. They just couldn't get it. We will suffer just because we serve Jesus. 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 result, the end of verse 25: "When a great famine came over all the land." [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. 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). He wasn't there for vengeance on anyone, He was there for salvation. There were many widows. For this man is performing many signs. 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. The Twelve Instructed and Sent Forth. The trip is only 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) long. But it does nothing for those who don't because no miracles can prove that Jesus can save the sinner from hell. Ive actually been criticized by some ministers and Christian workers for going to certain small churches instead of going to larger ones. Crossway Books. Are you kidding me? Jesus did not return because the crowd was large. 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. Consequently, Nazareth became Jesus hometown. But the Christian ministry is spiritual warfare! Now this is worse. 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. 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. No rain in Israel for three and a half years. A new nation? That is the testimony of history and the gospel accounts. The Greek word tekton usually translated carpenter really means a craftsman or artisan, denoting a skilled worker in the building trade, who would have worked in wood and also in stone. Few people were interested and so few people came. This study describes this second return. And so far the story has been positive. She did. Jesus would have been between two and five years old. Tyre and Sidon in that Gentile region, Zarephath was a town in between the two, Tyre and Sidon, a Phoenician city. 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). How am I going to know that that's true unless I do what He says? 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? He also used it as recorded in John 4:44. Let's go back to verse 16 in Luke 4 and pick up the scene where it really begins. Is God really truly God? 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 ). He was concerned that they were sinners who needed their sins forgiven. There's only one reason why people who know the truth of Jesus don't believe. Now it says, verse 26, "And Elijah was sent to none of them." So, Matthew seems to place the birth of Jesus quite a few years before 4 BCE. They were the godly, the chosen, the true worshipers, the legalists, the ceremonialists, the covenantalists. Religious education cannot guarantee that the heart is in love with God or that the person is growing spiritually. God in Psalm 68:5 is called "The God who is the defender of widows." . We will suffer because there is a spiritual battle. (See Numb. 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. There were many synagogues and this was His boyhood synagogue with all the familiar faces there. Mark 6:5-6(NASB). The problem is not us. John 18:7. 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, 1. The city is part of Galilee, which is ruled by a another son of Herod the Great named Herod Antipas. So he goes over there and he does his seven ducks in the dirty river and guess what? Jesus is the speaker and the teacher in this passage, as you know from our study last week. 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. Psalm 146:9, "God, the Lord who relieves widows." When the family returned, they settled in Nazareth, a city in the northern part of Israel in a region known as Galilee. They were unsympathetic to that, they were too proud, too self-righteous, they were too skeptical because they were in a self-defense mode. Why? Messiah? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. Exodus 22, Deuteronomy 10, through the Psalms, Isaiah 1, many, many places and God has a special heart for widows. J. Vernon McGee. This woman in the land of Sidon, hang on, is a Gentile. And so here God sends His prophet to a woman from the home region of Jezebel, a Gentile widow. "And I say to you in truth," very much like the prior statement in verse 24, "Truly I say to you." 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. And they're the only ones who will be saved. 6:2, seq.) . We just can't buy this message. One preacher titled a sermon on this, "Seven ducks in a dirty pond." Zephaniah & Habakkuk foretell Judah's fall, Zephaniah warns of the punishment of Judah, Habakkuk asks why the cruel Babylonians succeed, 44. 9 At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? John MacArthur. Joseph may well have moved from Bethlehem to Sepphoris as a young man, in search of work on one of the biggest building sites in the whole of Palestine. Therefore, they rejected Him. So he goes back and his servant says, "Well, better a dirty river and a clean Naaman, huh?" Give Him your life, that's the only way you'll ever know. 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. The listeners could not believe what they heard. It is because they do not see themselves as the poor, prisoners, blind, and oppressed. In Mark's Gospel, Jesus returns to Galilee from the desert after John's arrest, following a period of solitude and temptation. There He grew up from a child into an adult and then started His ministry. It's true the reputation of Jesus had been growing. The reason for rejecting the Lord has always been that men prefer their own way to His.[3]. I'm going to die anyway, what have I got to lose?" Note that Matthew 13:55 provides the same list of Marys children. Their message was simple. Upon learning that Herod Archelaus had succeeded his father in Judea, they continued on to Galilee. Herod's son, Archelaus, only ruled until 6 CE, when Judea became a province ruled from Rome. Speaking of prophets that were unwelcome, I remind you of Elijah and Elisha. Event in the life of Jesus given in the canonical gospels, Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth, Barnes, Timothy David. Mary legally remained with Joseph until Jesus was 12 years old. 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 . That's an analogy of spiritual life and supply. 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. That is the last thing they were about to do. We've had four chapters. I mean, it's a normal thing. Or eternal life in God's kingdom? 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. 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're in shock, aren't we? 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. 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?' So if you look at 1 Kings 17 you see the story. And through His whole life He didn't express vengeance. No. John 11:47(NASB). They did not come because they had found reasons for rejecting Him. And Elisha says to him, "The God of Israel is willing to heal you. Now, you know, if she had been in the synagogue at Nazareth, she would have probably said, "Oh no, no, no. They found a place, a brow of a hill in which the city had been built in order to throw Him down the cliff. 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? 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