Jesus is our example! You can't get saved unless you're willing to be humiliated and realize your sinful condition. He had been invited to speak in a church in North Carolina. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon Him and He began to say to them, 'Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.'". The listeners could not believe what they heard. After all, had John the Baptist himself in his ministry about which they all knew, John the Baptist had said, "When the Messiah comes He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with (what? They were the godly, the chosen, the true worshipers, the legalists, the ceremonialists, the covenantalists. 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. And when Jesus didn't do that, when, in fact, Jesus didn't take vengeance on any of the ungodly people, whether they were Romans or whether they were apostate Jews, when there was none of that going on at all, John became concerned and eventually so confused that he took some of his own disciples, got word to them, sent them to Jesus to ask Him if He was really the Messiah because he wanted to know if He's the Messiah, where is the vengeance. How am I going to know that that's true unless I do what He says? Gray.) And then he says when she's going to get the water, "Can you also take what youve got left and make me a meal?" a MATT. 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. The wise men (Magi) from the East, guided by a star (an angel), arrive to worship the King of Kings with Mary in attendance (verse 11). Should Jesus have forced many people to be healed anyway? Mary legally remained with Joseph until Jesus was 12 years old. They were the people of God. Nazareth sits on a hill, many hills on the hill but it's up a slope. For the word nazar signifies to separate, to consecrate, to crown. The judgment comes and it is a judgment on the idolatry, the Baal worship of Ahab and the people of Israel. They refused forgiveness because they wanted to keep their sins. ", Jesus: apocalyptic prophet of the new millennium, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_of_the_family_of_Jesus_to_Nazareth&oldid=1097473319, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 10 July 2022, at 22:59. And You know, there's a bit of a concession here. And so far the story has been positive. Jesus, just before his public ministry began, left his boyhood home in Nazareth and took up residence in the city. He says, "You want Me to do what was over there, but that's not because you really care to have proof, this is your way of self-justification." But that begins to come true in the text before us. I have to say as a footnote here. A new nation? This study describes this second return. What a day, what a day. He began to believe in the power of the God of Israel and so eventually through some situations, I won't go into all of it, he wound up meeting Elisha. 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 Psalm 146:9, "God, the Lord who relieves widows." Ethbaal, he was so devoted to Baal He named himself after Baal. They soon begin their travel back to Judea and Bethlehem. 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. And I think there's a bit ofthere's a bit of mercy in that in Jesus' case. We must not avoid spiritual conflict when wrong has occurred just because our culture or others in the church say conflict is wrong. The following words should ring in our ears and be memorized. 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. Or eternal life in God's kingdom? Most of the Nazarenes were royalty. It just was supernaturally filled all the time. Very simple, admit their sin, ask Him to save them and see if He did it, right? It just kept getting filled and filled and filled. He cares about righteousness. He was concerned that they were going to miss eternal life. There is no hint in these passages that these men were not Marys sons. First Kings 17, that judgment comes through Elijah, he drops on the scene out of nowhere and he announces this judgment. We will discover later in our study that the religious leaders would join together and devise a plot to get rid of Him. 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. Jewish religious rituals Wise men visit Jerusalem The holy family flee to Egypt The holy family return to Nazareth Jesus grows up 4. And it's a fair axiom. This is one of those gripping and powerful portions of the Bible. It is because they do not see themselves as the poor, the blind, the prisoners, and the oppressed. 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 Sepphoris. He has asked us to be at peace with all men as much as possible (Romans 12:18). Returning home Nazareth would have looked something like thisNazareth is famous for one thing, and one thing only: it was the home town of Jesus. All Rights Reserved. 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. 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). 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. Jesus is the speaker and the teacher in this passage, as you know from our study last week. Or eternal life in God's kingdom? Obadiah foretells the punishment of Edom, Obadiah prophesies the resurgence of Israel, 46. 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 . They tried to kill Him but it wasn't His time. The area was the home of the father of Jezebel. In Mark's Gospel, Jesus returns to Galilee from the desert after John's arrest, following a period of solitude and temptation. It's true the reputation of Jesus had been growing. 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. We are worse than a Syrian Gentile leper. Warfare comes with serving God because the Evil One is waging spiritual warfare (Ephesians 6:12). In Matthew 2:23, the return to Nazareth is said to be a fulfilment of the prophetic word, "He shall be called a Nazarene". Just that hint. The Jesus Trail (Hebrew: , Sh'vl Yesh) is a 65 km (40 mi) hiking and pilgrimage route in the Galilee region of Israel that traces the route Jesus may have walked, connecting many sites from his life and ministry. So they fled to Egypt in order to save Jesus. The World of the Old Testament Journeys, 23.The Journeys of Adam, Enoch, Noah & Abraham, Cain is sent on a journey to the east of Eden, 24. 2 Timothy 2:3(NASB), Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. between 7AM and 14PM . Somebody had witnessed to her about the true God of Israel and she trusted in the true God of Israel. 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. Please be aware that these items are sent out from our office in the UK. [1] Contents 1 Gospel of John 2 Gospel of Mark 3 Gospel of Matthew 4 Galilean ministry 5 References 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. They just couldn't get it. That is a judgment of God. They never question them. How about you? Was Jesus an outspoken rabbi or was he God? While a seminary education can be helpful, it is not essential. Formal education can be very helpful, but it is not essential. He was a Gentile. And He wondered at their unbelief. Please, we would like to believe in You, prove You're Messiah. Based on the biblical accounts, there is evidence to suggest that Joseph provided a home to Mary and Jesus for as long as he was alive. The Israelites journey from Egypt to Mt Sinai, 26. The family continues their travels northward to their hometown of Nazareth (Matthew 2:22 - 23). The Journey continues from Sinai to Moab, The Israelites defeat King Sihon and King Og, The Israelites defeat the kings of Midian, Canaan is divided among the twelve tribes, 28. How will I ever know that? It's more of that "familiarity breeds contempt." There is a story about Dr. C. I. Scofield, the man who was responsible for The Scofield Reference Bible. 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 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. And He grew up and He didn't do any miracles and He didn't make any such claims and He didn't do any speaking and how can He now be the Messiah? It was never a question of miracles. Jesus returned knowing that the majority of the people in Nazareth did not welcome Him, but He returned anyway. And as I said, it is a concession. Aha, not on your life. "I know what you're thinking," He said. That He was going to cause people to fall as well as to rise? They never did. They responded by attempting to murder Him. He had never taught, Hed never preached and when He did, they were in awe. 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. It's bad enough to be a woman in Jewish tradition at this time, it's far worse to be a Gentile woman. That is absolutely unthinkable, unthinkable. 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. 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.". And in the days of Elijah there were not only many widows, but there was Baal worship everywhere because the king was a man named Ahab. They hated their oppressors. Malachi & Joel await the Day of the LORD, 48. Note that Matthew 13:55 provides the same list of Marys children. 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 Nazareth is located. John's Letters to the believers in Asia Minor, 20. Paul's Journey to Phrygia, Macedonia & Archaia, 11. Ethbaal means "Baal is alive." Mary And Joseph Return To Nazareth From Alexandria. After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, Sepphoris became an important centre of Jewish learning where the Jewish Council (the Sanhedrin) met and the traditions of the Jewish elders, so often challenged by Jesus (see, for example, Matthew 23:1-28) were codified into the Mishnah. But all of a sudden on this Sabbath in the year 28, He was there. Jesus did not return because it was a large wonderful city. 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. There was never a preacher like Him. He was there for salvation for anyone and everyone who recognized that they were poor, prisoners, blind and oppressed. . It is because they do not see themselves as the poor, prisoners, blind, and oppressed. In Bethlehem, Jesus' family is living in a home and not a stable (Matthew 2:11). I need to see something so that I can believe.". . It's actually the Greek word parabol, which means parable, but parabol has a broad meaning. Why did Jesus return to Nazareth? Matthew 8-15 . 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 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). That is the last thing they were about to do. After King Herod died, an angel of the Lord told Joseph to take Mary and Jesus back home to the land of Israel. And you know what? That's an analogy of spiritual life and supply. That is the message of verses 5-6. Amen is what the word is in the Greek, I solemnly assure you. It's an idiom for "I'm telling you the truth, this is really true. After Herod dies in early 4 B.C., Joseph has a dream where an angel tells him it is safe to return to Israel. And a three and a half year drought produces a famine, people start to die. 2. 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. '", You see what they were doing? How to get right with God: Sacrifice or Faith? Oh, man, did they hate this story. And that is the case of Jesus. 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. And He closed the book and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. Event in the life of Jesus given in the canonical gospels, Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth, Barnes, Timothy David. They persecuted the apostle Paul, and the Roman politicians persecuted Christians for many years after the apostles. I'm desperate. They weren't about to do that. But at this point, He makes a brilliant transition, and, folks, I want you to listen carefully. And so Jesus reads their minds. All you have to do is go over to the river and go down seven times." 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. I understand that no prophet is welcome in his hometown. They grabbed Him and in mob violence like a lynch mob, they roared out of the city, led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built. Jezebel was a Gentile Baal worshiper. Don't You come tell us You're the doctor if weif we don't have some proof.". Jesus banished disease from the whole land of Palestine and they put Him on a cross. But in order to accomplish that goal, He had to be willing to suffer rejection! Salvation is available for the poor, the prisoners, the blind and the oppressed. Jesus ordered two disciples: "In that village you'll . You're saying, "Well, why should we believe Him, after all, we don't have any proof that He's the Messiah." And so He says to them in verse 23, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal yourself! Now this is worse. They did not come because they had found reasons for rejecting Him. Now God cares about widows. In John 4:22, Jesus identifies himself as a Jew when speaking to the Samaritan woman. If they wanted proof, all they needed to do was ask Him to save them from their sins, but they had to admit their sins and they wouldn't. 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. They're getting angrier by the moment. And you could have paraded before me an infinite number of miracles. They had been all their lives to the synagogue, all their lives to that synagogue and they had heard reading after reading of the Torah, the law, and the Haftarah, the prophets, and sermon after sermon on Sabbath after Sabbath through millennia, if not centuries of years and they had heard many sermons about the Messiah and they had read many scriptures about His coming. 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. There He grew up from a child into an adult and then started His ministry. And we both take God very seriously and take His Word seriously. He was there. How long did it take Jesus to walk from Nazareth to Jerusalem? And he starts to think about it and he had second thoughts. To beseech Him to return and save us, if we have thoughtlessly or wilfully slighted Him. He had no intention of kicking open the prison doors, of wreaking havoc and divine vengeance on the ungodly. So Jesus is the fulfillment of this prophecy, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He anointed Me." They hated that message so violently because they would not be humiliated. 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. John MacArthur. 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. 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. Most scholarship places the date of Herod's death around 4 BCE.[6][7][8]. They're saying, "Do them here." In fact, John himself was greatly perplexed because John the Baptist, soon after the beginning of the ministry of Jesus, was taken prisoner. Jesus parents had fled to Egypt after they had been warned by God that King Herod would attempt to murder Him and every child under two years of age (Matthew 2:13-14). John 12:37(NASB). The family's return journey from Egypt has frequently been a subject of artistic representation. 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. 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. Let me tell you something as you study the New Testament. Some discredit those whom they know in favor of those they do not know. They would never accept the fact that they were the poor, prisoners, blind, and oppressed. Since the UK is now no longer a member of the EU, you may be charged an import tax on this item by the customs authorities in your country of residence, which is beyond our control. 8 AD approx. Many times the preacher had stood up in the synagogue and said, "The blessed hour of the Messiah is to come." The Journey continues from Sinai to Moab, The Israelites defeat King Sihon and King Og, The Israelites defeat the kings of Midian, Canaan is divided among the twelve tribes, 28. His words captured the moment in a way that was shocking and they still grip us with their power and their force. Let's see what He says, verse 25. 13:54-58; b MARK 6:1-6; c LUKE 4:16-31. b 1 And he went out from thence [from Capernaum]; and he cometh {a And coming} b into his own country; and his disciples follow him. She is a pagan Gentile widow in the midst of a pagan godless area but believes in the true and living God. How can we know the Messiah would be God incarnate? Malachi & Joel await the Day of the LORD, 48. 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. Mark. Paul's Journey to Cyprus, Pamphylia & Galatia, Paul & Barnabas return to Antioch in Syria, Paul & Barnabas attend the Council of Jerusalem, Paul & Barnabas take the decision to Antioch, 10. We will discover later in John 7:15 that it was common knowledge that Jesus did not have any formal rabbinical education. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see me." (Matthew 28:8-10) Two Disciples on the Road to Emmaus Traditionally, Sepphoris is said to be the home of Joachim and Anna (believed to be the parents of Jesuss mother Mary) and therefore Marys childhood home. They tended to be disfiguring diseases, usually contagious diseases. They knew that this was speech like there had never been. 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. Nathanaels comment was negative. It was a small, isolated city in the Galilean hills. Courtyard of a typical 1st century house at Qasrin (Matthew 2:23). On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Jesus did not send an angel to testify of myths, but of facts, prophecies that will soon take place. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.[2]. And if he's not, I'll just have one less meal and die half a day sooner. 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. When Jesus had lived there, He was the carpenter. He says the same thing as recorded in Matthew 13:57 and Mark 6:4. Exodus 22, Deuteronomy 10, through the Psalms, Isaiah 1, many, many places and God has a special heart for widows. Jeremiah 9:23-24. However, the rest of the passage reveals that Jesus did perform healings when people came to Him. "Jesus came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and as was His custom He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read, and the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him and He opened the book and found the place where it was written, 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are downtrodden, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.' But this was a different day because now He took the place of the Messiah and declared to them that He was the fulfillment of all messianic prophecy. But on that day the Messiah Himself is the reader and He is the expositor, Messiah the Son of God Himself is the mafteer, to whom the chazan hands the haftarah. 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. 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. Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_of_Jesus_to_Galilee&oldid=1088534225, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 18 May 2022, at 16:11. His parents make an offering to the temple of two young birds. We will suffer just because we serve Jesus. They were astonished by it. 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 . They may be passive Christians. Consequently, Nazareth became Jesus hometown. Jonah goes to Nineveh & Nahum condemns it, Jonah is thrown overboard to appease the gods, 42. Well that's something like what the Jews in the Nazareth synagogue experienced that day. What do you want with us? They refused to admit it. Forty days after Jesus is born, fulfilling the purification requirement of Leviticus 12, Mary and Joseph travel to Jerusalem's temple to present him before God. What went wrong? Imagine coming to church today expecting to hear me preaching and having the Lord Jesus Christ appear in person to tell you that He had come to fulfill all the prophecies of His Second Coming, all the prophecies of the glory of His Kingdom of salvation on earth. You know, words of salvation were offered to them, forgiveness, good news, release, light, sight, but they had to be willing to admit they were the poor, prisoners, blind, and oppressed. I'm destitute. And then He proceeded to exposit the passage, recited there in verses 18 and 19.

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