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MARCH 28
‘He shall give His angels charge over
you,
To keep you,’
4:21 this Scripture is fulfilled. This was an
and,
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unambiguous claim that Jesus was the Messiah
‘In their hands they shall bear you up, who fulfilled the prophecy. His hearers cor-
Lest you dash your foot against a rectly understood His meaning but could not
stone.’ ” accept such lofty claims from One whom they
knew so well as the carpenter’s son (v. 22;
And Jesus answered and said to him, “It Matt. 13:55).
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has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD
your God.’ ”
Now when the devil had ended every temp-
13 Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum,
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tation, he departed from Him until an oppor- do also here in Your country.’ ” Then He said,
tune time. “Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accept-
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Then Jesus returned in the power of the
14 ed in his own country. But I tell you truly,
Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out many widows were in Israel in the days of
through all the surrounding region. And He Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three
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taught in their synagogues, being glorified by years and six months, and there was a great
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all. famine throughout all the land; but to none of
So He came to Nazareth, where He had
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been brought up. And as His custom was, He the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a
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went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the
and stood up to read. And He was handed the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them
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book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
28 So all those in the synagogue, when they
opened the book, He found the place where it
was written: heard these things, were filled with wrath,
29 and rose up and thrust Him out of the city;
“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, and they led Him to the brow of the hill on
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Because He has anointed Me which their city was built, that they might
To preach the gospel to the poor; throw Him down over the cliff. Then passing
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He has sent Me to heal the through the midst of them, He went His way.
brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are
oppressed; 4:28 filled with wrath.This is Luke’s first men-
To proclaim the acceptable year tion of hostile opposition to Christ’s ministry.
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of the LORD.” What seems to have sparked the Nazarenes’
fury was Christ’s suggestion that divine grace
Then He closed the book, and gave it back to might be withheld from them yet extended to
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the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all Gentiles.
who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
And He began to say to them, “Today this 4:30 passing through the midst of them.
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Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” So all The implication is that this was a miraculous
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bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gra- escape—the first of several similar incidents in
cious words which proceeded out of His mouth. which Jesus escaped a premature death at the
And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?” hands of a mob (John 7:30; 8:59; 10:39).
He said to them, “You will surely say this
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proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself!
DAY 28:Who is the Prophet that Moses refers to in Deuteronomy 18:15–19?
Read through 18:15–19 again where Moses promises that “the LORD your God will raise up for
you a Prophet like me from your midst.”The singular pronoun emphasizes the ultimate Prophet who
was to come. Both the Old Testament (34:10) and the New Testament (Acts 3:22,23; 7:37) interpret
this passage as a reference to the coming Messiah,who,like Moses,would receive and preach divine
revelation and lead His people (John 1:21,25,43–45; 6:14; 7:40).In fact,Jesus was like Moses in sever-
al other ways: 1) He was spared death as a baby (Ex. 2; Matt. 2:13–23); 2) He renounced a royal court
(Phil.2:5–8;Heb.11:24–27);3) He had compassion on His people (Num.27:17;Matt.9:36);4) He made
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