What Jesus is preaching in his hometown of Nazareth
he sits down everybody staring at him
they're looking at him like, isn't this the son of Joseph?
Right, that's what they say and verse 23 it says
and he said unto them you will surely say unto me this proverb
physician heal thyself whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum
do here in thy country and he said verily I say unto you no prophet is accepted in his own
country
but I will tell you of a truth many widows were in Israel
in the days of Elias when the heaven was shut up three years and six months
when great famine was throughout all the land but unto none of them was Elias sent
save unto Sarepta a city of Sidon unto a woman
that was a widow. So in that time there was all these people in the nation of
Israel there's widows everywhere
but where did he go? He went to the Gentile. Why?
Well because they were having a hard time with their faith apparently at that
time
their country was going through a famine for a reason because there was a lot of
wicked people in Israel at that time
and you know but why is Jesus telling them this story? I think that
there's a little more here than meets the eye I think that he's basically kinda
just calling them out for being racist
but at the same time saying that you're you know these people's faith is better
than yours
you know and and also it says in verse 27
and many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisias the prophet
and none of them was cleanse saving name in the Syrian
and all they were in the synagogue when they heard these things
were filled with wrath and they rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him into the
brow
of the hill wherein the city was built that they might cast him down headlong
but he passed through the midst of them and went his way. So why did they try to kill him?
Well he's talking about Gentiles getting saved. You know why did they try to kill him?
Because he got up and said
I'm the Messiah. They rejected the Messiah. They rejected the Lord Jesus Christ
and you know now we are that spiritual nation. He's replaced them
and we're the spiritual nation. So I think that God
you know that Jesus knew their racist hearts. You know he tells other stories showing
and proving that they
were racist.