Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and he entered, as his custom was, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.
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… and fulfill this in totality that's what the seven years are for amazing Luke chapter four all this dovetails together Luke chapter four verse 16 Jesus's words are in yellow on this uh on this display uh so he that's Jesus came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. And he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written. Okay, that's amazing because that's 66 chapters, but there were no chapter breaks. There were no verses. and he turns to this portion of scripture. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written. Verse 18, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the recovery of sight to the blind. …
… Jesus, as his custom, the Bible says, took the Sabbath. It says in Luke chapter four, verse 16, on the Sabbath day, he went into the synagogue, say it with me, as was his custom. Now this is, this is Jesus. So obviously there's a spiritual reason, but look back at the physical reason. Jesus took breaks after IMAs, intensive ministry activity. He would draw away. He would go, I'm talking about Jesus. He would go on long walks with his disciples. He might prepare breakfast or whatever. The Bible says in Mark chapter six, verses 31 through 32, and he said to them, come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while. For there were many coming and going and they did not even have time to eat. So they departed to a deserted place. it's amazing isn't it so Jesus says physically you need a break he modeled it God says it and then Jesus modeled it spiritually we need a break emotionally we need a break if we're hydroplaning through life and we're not in God's groove you're talking about getting things out of whack we end up living You're welcome. …
… in the wilderness, this is how Luke introduces us to the ministry of Jesus. The very first thing that Jesus does in Luke's account. Watch this. Luke 4 verse 16. He came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. …
… So things looked initially very good. So He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and this is the most familiar place to Him. And as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. Now that would be a routine thing. He would have done that since his childhood, faithfully every Sabbath. He would have gone to the synagogue with his family. Synagogues were essentially a house of instruction. They're very much like a church. It's not a temple. It's not a place where sacrifices are made. It's just a gathering place for the explanation of Scripture, instruction from the Old Testament. And the way they basically ordered that was they had a set prescribed pattern of reading the Old Testament. And in fact, in a typical synagogue service there would be seven readers who would read a portion of the Old Testament and make some comment. And following those seven, there would be a final one who sort of gave the major address, And the final one was called a maftir, and his responsibility usually was to do an exposition from the set reading of the prophets, the Old Testament prophets. …