Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Luke 4

After the Savior declared His divinity to those in the synagogue in Nazereth, they responded -

"...Is not this Joseph's son?"  (New Testament | Luke 4:22)

In other words, I believe they are saying, "isn't he one of us".  You cant tell the the Savior perceived that those in the synagogue wanted him to "prove it".  To which the Savior answered -

"...Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
25 But I 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;
26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian."  (New Testament | Luke 4:23 - 27)

In other words, I don't have to prove anything to you.  I have already healed many in Capernaum and that is sufficient to test you faith.  Faith was always the requirement for miracles.  Obviously, they presented no faith.

What is interesting is that -

"...they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way..."  (New Testament | Luke 4:28 - 30)

I would love to see how this took place.