Jesus meets an incredulous group of people from his home town in this Wednesday’s Gospel reading (Mark 6:1-6). It’s a fascinating text, and it has a surprising number of interesting details. Let’s ...

Luke begins his narration of Jesus’s ministry with two incidents: the first, is his appearance in the synagogue at Nazareth; the second, a typical day at Capernaeum, the lakeside town where Jesus ...

Let’s open the Bible to Luke 4:31-36. Jesus had been preaching and teaching in Nazareth (his hometown) and being rejected by the “religious” leaders. Christ left and came down to Capernaum, a city of ...

The people of Nazareth may have forced Jesus out of town because of their intolerance to new ways of thinking and resistance to change, a new book suggests. This was driven by a staunch adherence to ...