Luke 4:20-30 - They Wanted to See a Miracle

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries · Oct 8, 2024 · 4m

In this passage Jesus is preaching His first recorded message in the Gospel of Luke in His hometown of Nazareth in the synagogue on the first Sabbath that He was there. He begins His message by reading from the scroll of Isaiah, one of the favorite prophets of the Jewish rabbis. In our English Bible, Jesus was reading from Isaiah 61:1-2. Many of the people present knew that Scripture by heart. They expected Him to complete the sentence, "and the day of vengeance of our God." Instead, He closed the book and returned it to the custodian. Then He sat down and began to teach them.

Every eye was…