Rejected at Nazareth, Jesus makes Capernaum his home
Luke 4:14–31; Isaiah 61:1–2; Matthew 4:13–16
In the synagogue of his hometown Jesus read from Isaiah 61 and announced, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” The townspeople turned on him and tried to throw him off a cliff.
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed”
Luke 4:18 (World English Bible)
At first they marveled at his words, but asked, “Isn't this Joseph's son?” When Jesus reminded them that Elijah and Elisha had been sent to foreigners, they drove him out of town. He passed through the crowd and went his way, and made his home in Capernaum by the Sea of Galilee.
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Dating notes
Ussher: late AD 30, after Jesus returned to Galilee. The month shown is estimated from the order of events in Ussher's harmony, so that events of the same year appear in sequence.