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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the four decades since it made its debut on Palm Sunday and Easter of 1977, I’ve watched Franco Zeffirelli’s Jesus of Nazareth in bits and pieces far more often than I’ve watched the ...

According to Luke’s narrative, Jesus’ first public action takes place in the synagogue at Nazareth. Jesus stands up and reads from the Book of Isaiah (61:1-2 and 58:6).

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

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 ...

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 ...

Last Sunday’s gospel was about the beginning of the Galilean Ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is found in your Bible in Luke 4:14-21 and today’s gospel is the continuation of last ...