It was right after Jesus finished speaking that the
people began to yell “How dare he say such things!” and were about to stone
them and Jesus slipped past them saying “No prophet is accepted in his hometown”.
Well, not exactly.
Now read Luke 4:13-30 especially verse 22
So how did the people respond? So often we skip this next
part and go straight to the ending, the people get angry and try to kill him.
When we skip this next part we miss the point of his entire message. It says that they spoke well of him and were
amazed at his words, and of course they were! Here is a people who believed
that the Messiah would come from their home town, and here is this rabbi with
authority and he’s Joseph’s son. Joseph is one of ours! We knew it!
Can you feel the level of excitement building among the
crowd? So many of them may have been ridiculed by other Jews for their belief
and yet here is this rabbi from Nazareth, performing miracles. After all, they
heard about the miracles Jesus performed in Capernaum (verse 23).
Then things turn, when the crowd asks Jesus to do a
miracle.
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