By Jon Schell. When Jesus returned to Nazareth, He spoke in the synagogue in front of people that he grew up with, according to Luke 4:22-30. Here, He should have been a hometown hero, but He wasn ...

In the Synagogue in Nazareth. By . Published: February 02, 2013 05:00 PM GMT. Updated: January 27, 2013 09:37 PM GMT. Luke begins his narration of Jesus’s ministry with two incidents: the first, is ...

We are now on the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel reading speaks about the visit of our Lord Jesus to his own hometown in Nazareth where most of its inhabitants are his neighbors ...

Jesus meets an incredulous group of people from his home town in this Wednesday’s Gospel reading (Mark 6:1-6). It’s a fascinating text, and it has a surprising number of interesting details.

As a result of His reading, Jesus had a public relations problem that we quote afterward: “He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day, he went into the synagogue ...

Other than that, it is a fair assumption that he would have learned the craft of his foster father, St. Joseph, who was a ...

Magdala sat on a major commercial trade route between Nazareth and Capernaum. Jesus could have stopped there as he traveled between those towns. I could envision Jesus in this synagogue, reading ...

The Sunday after President Obama delivered his second inaugural address, my pastor preached on Luke 4:14–21, the story of Jesus' reading from the Isaiah scroll in his hometown synagogue.

The synagogue at Capernaum (K’far Nahum in Hebrew), recorded in the New Testament as one of the first places where Jesus of Nazareth spoke to the people, will be reconstructed.