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The Beginning of Christ's Ministry and His Teaching in Nazareth. Luk_4:14-32
The return to Galilee:
v. 14. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee; and there went out a fame of Him through all the region round about.
v. 15. And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
The evangelist has here omitted a part of the gospel-story, probably that related Joh_2:1-25. For he writes that Jesus turned back into Galilee, where He had been before. In the power of the Spirit, who was with Him and took an active part in His ministry, He made this journey which meant the public beginning of the work in which He spent the last years of His life. He had been known before in the section of Galilee near Cana, where He had performed His first miracle, and therefore at this time the news concerning Him went out and spread throughout the neighborhood. It preceded Him wherever He went, it made the people eager to see and hear Him. And He took up His work of bringing the Gospel to His countrymen; He taught in their synagogues, He tried to impart the great lessons of the coming of the kingdom of God. And He was highly praised by all, for all felt the power of His preaching, of whom at least some acknowledged the divinity of His mission.