diff --git a/content/bible_journal/luke_4:13-30.md b/content/bible_journal/luke_4:13-30.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bca1a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/luke_4:13-30.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ ++++ +title = "Luke 4:14–30" +date = "2022-10-30" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk4.13-30) + +After the time in the wilderness, Jesus began teaching throughout Galilee, the +region where His hometown is. He becomes well-known enough that people are +talking about Him before He actually returns to Nazareth. + +At Nazareth, He attends the synogogue on the Sabbath and reads from the scroll +of Isaiah ([_Isa. 61:1–2_](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Isa61.1-2)). It is from +the final section of the book which proclaims that after all the terrible +judgements, God will have mercy on Israel and restore the world to a state +similar to the one before the curse of sin. After reading, He sits down and +declares that the words He read had been fulfilled: He had the Spirit of God +and was proclaiming good news to the poor, releasing the captives, giving sight +to the blind, and proclaiming the year of the Lord's favor. + +At first, the Nazarenes like what they hear, but then they start thinking, "We +know this guy. He grew up around here; he's the carpenter's son. Does he think +he's better than the rest of us?" Jesus, surely knowing full well what's about +to happen, points out several examples from Scripture where God's people didn't +believe the prophets, but foreigners were blessed because of them. His point is +that the people are so wrapped up in the identity of the messenger that they +neglect both the content of the message and the One who sent it. + +The crowd takes this as an insult instead of a rebuke, hardens their hearts, +and transforms into a mob intent on murder. However, Jesus just walks through +them and leaves them up on the town's cliff. + +* * * + +Help us to be wise and accept correction, even from those we are most familiar +with, even those we have corrected before.