Yet, for all the prophetic pronouncement and scriptural integrity, the people rejected Christ ... imagine that the people of Nazareth were enraged because Jesus was calling their own relative ...

In our Gospel reading today, Jesus challenges the narrow view of God held by the people of Nazareth, his hometown. Just as ...

Decades of Roman rule were causing ever more resentment. Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos.

Jesus grew up in Nazareth, but the people there did not recognise his importance. They would have known his family very well and would have seen him as a carpenter. They would have found it ...