Hi everyone.

Welcome back to the Logical Bible Study podcast.

Thanks once again for tuning in.

And today's gospel reading is from Luke chapter 4 verse 24 to 30

Jesus came to Nazara and spoke to the people in the synagogue

I tell you solemnly no prophet is ever accepted in his own country

there were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah's day, when heaven

remained shut for three years and six months, and a great famine raged throughout the land.

But Elijah was not sent to any one of these.

He was sent to a widow at Zarath, a Sidonian town. And in the

prophet Elish's time, there were many lepers in Israel, but none of these was cured, except the Syrian

Naiman. When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged. They sprang to their

feet and hustled him out of the town and they took him up to the brow of the hill their town

was built on, intending to throw him down the cliff, but he slipped through the crowd and walked away.

So a really interesting reading today.

And what's the context?

Well, Jesus has just come to Nazareth, which is where he was brought up.

And he sort of returns there and he's a bit of a star.

So all of his family is there.

There's probably only about 300 people living in Nazareth.

And he's just preached at the synagogue. If you remember the story where he gets up and he reads

the scroll of Isaiah and everyone's watching and they're really interested in what he has to say.

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