Scripture Reading: Luke 4:16-30
Christ never forgot the place where He had spent His childhood years. We are not given many facts of His life there. Nothing indicates that there was anything unusual in the story of the thirty years He spent there. The more we think of His life at Nazareth as simply natural, without anything unusual, the nearer shall we come to the true conception of the boy and young man who grew up in the lowly village of Nazareth. Our passage today tells of His visit to His old home after He had been away for many months.
“He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up.” It was not an easy place for Jesus to visit. Everybody knew Him. He had lived there for thirty years. He had been playmate and schoolmate with the people of His own age. He had been a carpenter, doing work for many years in the shop and about the town. The young men of Nazareth thought themselves as good as He was, and were not in mood to receive instruction from Him. It is easy for us to understand the prejudice and envy with which people listened to Jesus as He spoke to them that day in their synagogue.
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