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