A lynch mob went after Jesus because of his first homily, which came straight from the sacred writings (Luke 4:16-30). Jesus, ...

Since God would send prophets to a rebellious people, Israel, to a nation that has rebelled against him (Ez 2:4), the life of a prophet was never an easy one. In condemning corruption and oppression, ...

It looks, at first, as if this Gospel passage gives us little information about the context of events in the Nazareth synagogue. True, Jesus is asked to read: but was he expected to follow some scheme ...

Sepphoris: The Forgotten Capital Just a stone's throw from Nazareth, the humble town where Jesus grew up, lies Sepphoris. In ...

Pope Francis at the Angelus spoke of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp: ...

In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are–the Holy One of God!” ...

In it, Jesus declares his intentions “to proclaim good news to the poor,” as he speaks to people gathered in a synagogue in Nazareth. At Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Dallas ...

Lk 11:27f). Notwithstanding the great joy that marked the beginning of Jesus's ministry, in the synagogue of Nazareth you must already have experienced the truth of the saying about the “sign of ...

As the names “Jesus of Nazareth” and “Jesus the Nazarene ... TREASURE FROM JESUS’ TIME Unearthed in a synagogue in the hometown of Mary Magdalene, the Magdala Stone is thought to ...

a city far beyond Nazareth and notable for its large non-Jewish population. Now that Jesus was back home — preaching in the synagogue, even — I’m sure they thought that he’d return to show ...