I have been thinking about this passage again in the past few days.
Before Jesus was rejected at Nazareth, he has been teaching in other towns in Galilee, as mentioned in v14-15. And people in those other towns all sang praise of him and were impressed by his teaching. Though it was the case, we always considered his reading of the passage from the book of Isaiah in Nazareth the 'official announcement/ beginning' of his ministry. I wonder why.
And when I think again what Jesus told his old neighbors in Nazareth, about how a prophet would never be received in his home town, I think not only about the people in Nazareth at that time but Israel as a whole, when they put Jesus on the cross.
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