Getting to Know Jesus #2

After Jesus had successfully defeated Satan with all his temptations, Luke tells us in Luke 4:14:

And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
16 And 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. 17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
18 “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,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”

Jesus talked, and people talked about Him. And He went to one of the hardest places to go: back home.  Remember, Luke shows us the hard places Jesus went through: at 12, when He seemingly had to choose between obeying His Heavenly Father and His earthy parents: at 30, when He confronts Satan, and now, as He begins His ministry, when He goes back home.  Home is a real test of how true our testimony is. How will we defend our faith there? How will we accept rejection there?  Jesus goes to Him hometown synagogue, as was His custom, - Remember He came to fulfill the Law, not abandon it - but this time He is the speaker, the Rabbi, and He chooses His text from Isaiah, which speaks of the One who will bring the Good News from God. We'll see tomorrow what He does with that.