Sunday, April 29, 2012

April 29th 2012


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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