And with Him came salvation to the poor, and the prisoners, and the blind, and the outcasts, the distressed, the oppressed, the downtrodden. When Jesus had lived there, He was the carpenter. Then they'll know that I'm the Messiah, right?". Kent Hughes responds to our peculiar attitude with this account, There are people who find it personally offensive if someone who was one of them yesterday should have become much more today. How long did it take Jesus to walk from Nazareth to Jerusalem? They never questioned that. That is absolutely unthinkable, unthinkable. They even say it. She figured that out, by the way. Zephaniah & Habakkuk foretell Judah's fall, Zephaniah warns of the punishment of Judah, Habakkuk asks why the cruel Babylonians succeed, 44. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.[2]. So, that's what they want. They were righteous. Not only was Jesus the carpenter, but they also knew His family: Mary, James, Joses, Judas, and Simon. In John 4:22, Jesus identifies himself as a Jew when speaking to the Samaritan woman. So we are worse than a Gentile widow from Jezebel's hometown. From a human perspective, I am personally amazed that Jesus returned to a group of people who had wanted to murder Him. How to get right with God: Sacrifice or Faith? The family continues their travels northward to their hometown of Nazareth (Matthew 2:22 - 23). It identifies various ancient skin diseases, everything from superficial diseases to serious diseases. Then I knew. Ethbaal, he was so devoted to Baal He named himself after Baal. The rejection of Jesus Christ is not something that has started only during our lifetime. When the family returned, they settled in Nazareth, a city in the northern part of Israel in a region known as Galilee. He goes on progressing in wisdom and in physical growth. And that is the case of Jesus. They did not reject Him because they lacked the truth but because they rejected the truth. And He wondered at their unbelief. Mary and the family's trip to and from Egypt is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy (Hosea 11:1). And so, in self-defense they begin to think. By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, He spoke in the synagogue, but the townspeople did not like what he said. The day of salvation was present. 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. We will suffer because there is a spiritual battle. 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. Map ReferencesHoly Bible, a Faithful VersionJohn Gills' Exposition of the Bible. Ive actually been criticized by some ministers and Christian workers for going to certain small churches instead of going to larger ones. 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." Very simple, admit their sin, ask Him to save them and see if He did it, right? How do I know that I can trust you? We will suffer just because we serve Jesus. Herod's son, Archelaus, only ruled until 6 CE, when Judea became a province ruled from Rome. Few people were interested and so few people came. God has not called us to peace at all costs. Why did He leave the vengeance out? And the cruse of oil was never empty. Help Grace to You bring important resources like this to people in your community and beyond, free of charge. He commanded a set of troops that were always raiding Israel. Oh boy, you're sitting in the synagogue, you're saying, "This is not going well. 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. They were like local churches in towns today, there are many in a given town. Event in the life of Jesus given in the canonical gospels, Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth, Barnes, Timothy David. 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 . This is a widow who believes in the true God. 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. We infer, then, that the return was in the summer of 750, after a sojourn of three or four months. II. And through His whole life He didn't express vengeance. I understand that, human nature. Zephaniah & Habakkuk foretell Judah's fall, Zephaniah warns of the punishment of Judah, Habakkuk asks why the cruel Babylonians succeed, 44. But if he is the man of God, and if God did send him, then I have life." Nazareth sits on a hill, many hills on the hill but it's up a slope. 1 Tradition marks out the route which Joseph took into Egypt to have been by way of Hebron, Gaza, and the desert; which, as the most direct w r ay, is very likely the true one. there were many widows. Courtyard of a typical 1st century house at Qasrin (Matthew 2:23). He was a big-time soldier. How to get right with God: Sacrifice or Faith? Jesus did not return because the crowd was large. Log In The Israelites journey from Egypt to Mt Sinai, 26. Huh. John 18:7. . Amen. So if you look at 1 Kings 17 you see the story. 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. From Bethlehem to Egypt to Nazareth, Jesus's family accepted changes around them . 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. 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. Tyre and Sidon in that Gentile region, Zarephath was a town in between the two, Tyre and Sidon, a Phoenician city. There's only one reason why people who know the gospel don't accept Christ. And You know, there's a bit of a concession here. They never did. Conflict is part of the Christian life. Well, I'm from the God of Israel and I'm going to ask you, if you will, to take all that you have left, your last meal before you die, starve to death, and she had a son as well, and give it to me. When King Herod fell sick and died, an angel appeared to Joseph with instructions. Their journey from Bethlehem to what is Egyptian-controlled territory (which was outside the jurisdiction of Herod) was at least 65 kilometers (40 miles). After the wise men leave, Joseph is told (in a dream) to flee to Egypt (verse 13). Scripture tells of Joseph returning to Nazareth, avoiding any further residence in Judea. Then He gave the exposition of those passages and showed what they meant and how He fulfilled them. Leprosy is a sort of a categorical word. They're saying, "Do them here." During Jesuss childhood, the most important town in, It is quite possible that Joseph first met Mary when he came to work in, 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, 1. They knew that this was speech like there had never been. Jeremiah 9:23-24. That's what He did. It relates the return of Jesus to Galilee upon the imprisonment of John the Baptist. Great speakers making great speeches have always won over the minds and hearts of their hearers. Paul's Journey to Phrygia, Macedonia & Archaia, 11. Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in your home town as well. He was the king of Phoenicia, Tyre and Sidon, he was the king, he was a Baal-worshiping king, he was also a priest in the temple of Melqart and Astarte, two of the deities in the pantheon of Baal worship. It was in the time of Elisha, and they didn't like Elisha, he didn't have any honor in his ownin his own country any more than Elijah did. And He told them He had come to fulfill messianic prophecy, He had come to bring the favorable year of the Lord, which means the era of salvation. They hated their oppressors. Paul's Letters to Ephesus, Colossae & Philippi, 17. There were many widows. Joseph found that one of King Herods sons, Archelaus, was ruling in his place in Judea. Jesus banished disease from the whole land of Palestine and they put Him on a cross. Clean! Let me put it to you simply. It was now present, it was now in their midst. And Jesus wasn't finished. It relates the return of Jesus to Galilee upon the imprisonment of John the Baptist. In Mark's Gospel, Jesus returns to Galilee from the desert after John's arrest, following a period of solitude and temptation. And Ethbaal was such a wicked man he murdered his predecessor and he was a priest as well as being a king. Nazareth turned its back on Jesus. But at this point, He makes a brilliant transition, and, folks, I want you to listen carefully. Obadiah foretells the punishment of Edom, Obadiah prophesies the resurgence of Israel, 46. Archelaus was known for his cruelty and in response to complaints from the populace, in 6 AD he was deposed by Augustus and banished to Vienne in Gaul. 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. 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. We have witnessed this fact in the pages of the gospels. Their message was simple. Most of the Nazarenes were royalty. So Jesus is the fulfillment of this prophecy, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He anointed Me." It doesn't prove that. Now this is worse. Again I say, take all the healers, line them up, let them heal all the sick, that doesn't prove that Jesus can forgive sin. There is no hint in these passages that these men were not Marys sons. They continued to reject the apostles even after Jesus left. We must not avoid spiritual conflict when wrong has occurred just because our culture or others in the church say conflict is wrong. "Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in Your home town as well." And you know what the message to them was? You know what his name was? In their minds they were the respectable. Somebody had witnessed to her about the true God of Israel and she trusted in the true God of Israel. Father, this is such a powerful, powerful statement of the mission of the Messiah to save sinners. What is essential is a mans love, faithfulness, and obedient walk with God and a never ending search of the scriptures in order to increasingly know God resulting in ongoing transformation into Christ-likeness. He had no intention of kicking open the prison doors, of wreaking havoc and divine vengeance on the ungodly. Now what's wrong with Naaman? Why did Jesus return to a city that had previously attempted to murder Him? How could Jesus let it happen? They didn't even take into consideration that the Father out of heaven had said, "This is My beloved Son.". John MacArthur. 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. We are worse than a Syrian Gentile leper. There was not an honest issue of evidence. And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. 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. This study describes this second return. And you could have paraded before me an infinite number of miracles. I mean, they must havesome of them must have wondered why He stopped reading there in verse 19. Ask 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. 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. 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. They couldn't equivocate on the majesty of His oratory. 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? My feeling is that our Lord set us an example here . but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus. And Jesus was saying to those Jews, "Let me tell you something, you may be Jews, you may be part of Israel, you may be the people of the covenants and the people of the Messiah, but I'll tell you this, God will save an outcast Gentile widow who admits her spiritual destitution before He'll save you.". It is possible that He also returned to visit His sisters. How do we know He's the Messiah? Let me tell you something, there's nothing worse than spiritual pride, is there? Jesus' birth, which occurs on or around the Feast of Trumpets (September 2 in 5 B.C.) Sure death was frequent, men died in wars. We don't know how that happened. They were the blessed, the blessed of all nations, the blessed of all generations. 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. John 9:16(NASB). After Herod dies in early 4 B.C., Joseph has a dream where an angel tells him it is safe to return to Israel. p. 409. 6:2, seq.) 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 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. 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. They worshiped the true and living God. . "I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah." So God cared for widows. The Jesus Trail may be walked in a series of day walks for a total of four days due to the topography and distances involved . Paul's Letters to Galatia & Thessalonica, The risen Lord Jesus appears to his followers, Christ's Victory Parade & the New Covenant, 15. They would come across the border and they would fight and they would terrorize and raid Israel and they would take prisoners and haul the prisoners back to Syria. They refused forgiveness because they wanted to keep their sins. Well, that's what I told you last week. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you . Aged 12, Jesus goes to Jerusalem with his parents for the Jewish festival of Passover. So the accumulated information about the miracles was growing and growing and nobody ever questioned that. For this man is performing many signs. . Some Bible scholars had noted differences in the birth narrative story of the flight. It just was supernaturally filled all the time. Nazareth is the hometown of Mary and Joseph. 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). Later Jesus decided to return again. Donations to this ministry aretax-deductible. The word had come back of what He had done there. He had been invited to speak in a church in North Carolina. As a result, they missed some tremendous blessings. 2 Timothy 2:3(NASB), Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. notwithstanding the many instances in old times of sons illustrious sprung from ignoble fathers; as David was the son of a husbandman, Jesse . Heal some people, do some, you know" No that wasn't You know how they could have known if Jesus was the Messiah? So he goes back and his servant says, "Well, better a dirty river and a clean Naaman, huh?" God in Psalm 68:5 is called "The God who is the defender of widows." The Jewish World of the Old Testament, Sources of the History of Israel and Judah. 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?' Now it says, verse 26, "And Elijah was sent to none of them." You know, the Lord had said, "You know, I come to save, this is it. Why? They're not questioning that He did them, they know He did them. Is the man of God really the man of God? She probably thought like this, "Well, I only have one little cup left, one little bit of oil, that's all I've got. Jewish religious rituals Wise men visit Jerusalem The holy family flee to Egypt The holy family return to Nazareth Jesus grows up 4. The young preacher leaned over and apologized to Dr. Scofield for the small number who had come to hear his preaching and teaching. Some of them probably were wondering about that. He also used it as recorded in John 4:44. Around 100 BC, one clan from the line of David returned to Israel and established the town of Nazareth. Familiarity breeds its normal contempt. They had reliable eyewitness accounts of what Jesus had done when He was there during that first year of ministry, He spent some time there. They didn't question that. 2 Timothy 3:12(NASB). He was there. 2. During Jesuss childhood, the most important town in Galilee was Sepphoris, located 4 miles / 6 km to the north of Nazareth (see Map 4). 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. Malachi & Joel await the Day of the LORD, 48. They knew He did miracles. We don't know how many visits He made, we know of one in particular that is indicated in the second chapter of John. 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 Divided Kingdom & Journey into Exile, Jezebel kills the prophets & Elijah escapes, Elijah organises the opposition to King Ahab, Jehu races to Jezreel to depose King Joram, King Joash repairs the Temple in Jerusalem, Jeroboam II restores the boundaries of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria invades Israel, Israel falls & the exiles are led to Assyria, King Hezekiah of Judah rebels against Assyria, Isaiah prophesies the destruction of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invades Judah, Jerusalem falls and the exile in Babylon begins, Biblical sources relating to Judah in exile, The later years of exile & the return to Judah, The completion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, A third group of exiles returns with Ezra, A fourth group of exiles returns with Nehemiah, Mordecai uncovers a plot to kill the king, The origin of the Jewish festival of Purim, 37. It's always the problem. 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. The problem is not us. Naaman was a commander-in-chief of a section known as Aram. Joseph's fears about living within Judea are confirmed when God sends him a warning in a dream. First Kings 17, that judgment comes through Elijah, he drops on the scene out of nowhere and he announces this judgment. "And I say to you in truth," very much like the prior statement in verse 24, "Truly I say to you." Just give your life to Him, He'll prove He can. The Return of Jesus to Galilee is an episode in the life of Jesus which appears in three of the Canonical Gospels: Matthew 4:12, Mark 1:14 and John 4:1-3, 4:43-45. We tend to highly value someone we do not know, only later to be often disappointed with them. Now, you know, if she had been in the synagogue at Nazareth, she would have probably said, "Oh no, no, no. Pretty good thinking, isn't it? There's only one way to know that Jesus can save your soul from hell and change your life and send you to eternal heaven with all your sins forgiven and that is to take your meager, little, wicked life and hand it over to Him and see what He does with it. She knows the God of Israel lives. They responded by attempting to murder Him. That He was going to be the reason for a sword to penetrate the heart of sweet Mary, His mother. Jesus went out from there and came into His hometown; and His disciples followed Him. We will discover later in our study that the religious leaders would join together and devise a plot to get rid of Him. Here is an enemy, a Gentile, somebody who has sacked and attacked and killed and plundered Israel and he's a leper. His sisters remained in Nazareth, perhaps because they were already married (Mark 6:3). 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. Instead, we should notice that very few people came to Jesus for healing. 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. Is God really truly God? For them, everything is a crusade. That is a judgment of God. It is quite possible that Joseph first met Mary when he came to work in Sepphoris. If He does a miracle, does that prove that He can give you eternal life and take you to heaven? Please respond to confirm your registration. In 5 B.C., just before the birth of Christ, the Romans require them to travel to their ancestral home (they were both of the lineage of King David) of Bethlehem. If they wanted salvation, they had to confess their spiritual destitution, their spiritual poverty, their spiritual blindness, their spiritual bondage, their spiritual oppression. 2023 Grace to You. Jesus teachings and the rumors about His miracles should have encouraged them to respond, but they did not. He even says, "We have clean rivers in my area, I'm not going in your dirty river.". And He said to them, 'No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, "Physician, heal yourself! Jesus is our example! Since Jesus was the God-man who had divine power for healing, the passage should not be understood as an inability to perform miracles. 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 were literally stunned by it. They gave their tithes. 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. But that begins to come true in the text before us. 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. 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. He had married a woman named Jezebel. This is a stranger, she's never met this guy in her entire life, he walks in and says, "Take what you've got, that's all you've got and make me a meal, I am the man of God, I am from the God of Israel." From the Kingdom of Israel to the Exile, 5. And they were saying repeatedly, "Is this not Joseph's son?" "I know what you're thinking," He said. Salvation has always been that way, folks. They all knew Elijah, the great prophet of Israel. Many people did reject Jesus. There He grew up from a child into an adult and then started His ministry. We can just imagine their thoughts. 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. 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). All they could think about was that they were below Gentiles. It's always the same. . Let me be very honest. Matthew 8-15 . She says, "The Lord God of Israel lives." I understand that." Nelson Publishing Co.. pp. Haggai & Zechariah encourage re-building, Haggai urges the exiles to re-build the Temple, Prophesies about the coming of the Messiah, 47.

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