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FEBRUARY 28
In the face of this, Jesus “could do no mighty work there” (v. 5).This is not to suggest that His
power was somehow diminished by their unbelief. It may suggest that because of their unbelief
people were not coming to Him for healing or miracles the way they did in Capernaum and
Jerusalem. Or, more importantly it may signify that Christ limited His ministry both as an act of
mercy, so that the exposure to greater light would not result in a worse hardening that would only
subject them to greater condemnation, and a judgment on their unbelief. He had the power to do
more miracles, but not the will, because they rejected Him. Miracles belonged among those who
were ready to believe.
“He marveled because of their unbelief”(v. 6).“Marveled”means Jesus was completely aston-
ished and amazed at Nazareth’s reaction to Him, His teaching, and His miracles. He was not sur-
prised at the fact of the people’s unbelief,but at how they could reject Him while claiming to know
all about Him.

on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the
February 28 Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet
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to sound throughout all your land. And you
shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout all the land to all its inhab-
Leviticus 25:1–55
itants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of
And the LORD spoke to Moses on you shall return to his possession, and each of
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25 Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the you shall return to his family. That fiftieth
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children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall
come into the land which I give you, then the neither sow nor reap what grows of its own
land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD. Six accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended
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years you shall sow your field, and six years vine. For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to
you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its you; you shall eat its produce from the field.
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fruit; but in the seventh year there shall be a 13 ‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall
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sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath return to his possession. And if you sell any-
to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field thing to your neighbor or buy from your
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nor prune your vineyard. What grows of its neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one
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own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, another. According to the number of years
nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, after the Jubilee you shall buy from your
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for it is a year of rest for the land. And the sab- neighbor, and according to the number of
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bath produce of the land shall be food for you: years of crops he shall sell to you. According
for you, your male and female servants, your to the multitude of years you shall increase its
hired man, and the stranger who dwells with price, and according to the fewer number of
you, for your livestock and the beasts that are years you shall diminish its price; for he sells
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in your land—all its produce shall be for food. to you according to the number of the years of
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8 the crops. Therefore you shall not oppress
‘And you shall count seven sabbaths of
years for yourself, seven times seven years; one another, but you shall fear your God; for I
and the time of the seven sabbaths of years am the LORD your God.
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shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you 18 ‘So you shall observe My statutes and
shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound keep My judgments, and perform them; and
you will dwell in the land in safety. Then the
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land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your
fill, and dwell there in safety.
20 ‘And if you say, “What shall we eat in the
25:8–55 The Year of Jubilee involved a year of seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gath-
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release from indebtedness (vv.23–38) and bond- er in our produce?” Then I will command My
age of all sorts (vv.39–55).All prisoners and cap- blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will
tives were set free, slaves released, and debtors bring forth produce enough for three years.
absolved. All property reverted to original 22 And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat
owners.This plan curbed inflation and moderat- old produce until the ninth year; until its pro-
ed acquisitions.It also gave new opportunity to duce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.
people who had fallen on hard times. 23 ‘The land shall not be sold permanently,
for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and
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