Winter-Spring 32 AD

Second Rejection of Jesus at Nazareth

From Capernaum Jesus and the disciples went to His hometown, Nazareth, Mark 6:1. He taught in their synagogue and they were astonished, and questioned the works that He had done. This was His second rejection as the Messiah. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house" (Mark 6:2)-5. Jesus marveled because of their unbelief and went about the villages teaching (Mark 6:6).

Jesus Sends the Apostles into Galilee

This is the fourth Galilean tour. Jesus is now ready to send the disciples out and gives them power and authority over all demons, all manner of sickness, disease, and death. They were sent to preach repentance and the kingdom of God (Matthew 10:1; 10:7-8; Luke 9:1-2; Mark 6:7; 6:12). As the disciples went, they were not to take provisions with them, God would supply their needs through the people they ministered to (Matthew 10:9-10; Mark 6:8-9; Luke 9:3). Jesus told them not to go to the Gentiles, nor the Samaritans, but only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, the Jews. The kingdom was being offered to Israel (Matthew 10:5-6). When the disciples left, Jesus went into the cities to preach.

John the Baptist and His Death

John told Herod, the local ruler, or governor, that he should not be living with his brother's wife, Herodias. Herodias was the wife of his brother, Philip. John had been imprisoned in Machaerus for nearly two years now, for Herodias' sake. Herod would have already put John to death but he feared the people, who counted John as a prophet. Herodias, however, tricked him into making an oath, and Herod had to put John to death to fulfill the oath. John was beheaded in prison, and his head was brought and given to Herodias. The disciples came and took the body and buried it (Matthew 14:3-12).

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