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Luke 4:38-44<\/h2>\n
38\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon\u2019s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her.<\/span>\u00a039\u00a0<\/sup>So he bent over her and rebuked\u00a0the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.<\/span><\/p>\n 40\u00a0<\/sup>At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one,\u00a0he healed them.<\/span>\u00a041\u00a0<\/sup>Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, \u201cYou are the Son of God!\u201d\u00a0But he rebuked\u00a0them and would not allow them to speak,\u00a0because they knew he was the Messiah.<\/span><\/p>\n 42\u00a0<\/sup>At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them.<\/span>43\u00a0<\/sup>But he said,\u00a0\u201cI must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God\u00a0to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a044\u00a0<\/sup>And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.<\/span><\/p>\n However, what is strange about this passage is Jesus’ instance that people not reveal (yet) that He is the son of God. After all, did He not just previously reveal in the temple that He was the fulfillment of Isaiah 61? Does that mean that there is an aspect of Jesus’ teaching that deviates from what was expected by the Jews? I think a more logical answer is that Jesus was likely trying to preserve His life until the right time. Just previously He was almost thrown over a cliff, so it would seem normal that He would want people to not refer to Him publicly as “the Son of God”. But there will be coming a time soon when it will no longer be possible to hide this truth.<\/p>\n \u201cI must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God\u00a0to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n As we pointed out earlier in Luke, Jesus seems much more concerned with sharing the gospel to as many would listen than to just the Jewish people or to His particular sect of Jews. The gospel was going to the ends of the earth…eventually.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jesus Heals Many Luke 4:38-44 38\u00a0Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon\u2019s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her.\u00a039\u00a0So he bent over her and rebuked\u00a0the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them. 40\u00a0At … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12227,"featured_media":13983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2280],"tags":[1900,7265,2344,7268,7266,7306,7307,7267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nObservations & Reflections<\/h2>\n
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At this point it is worth noting that Jesus has been teaching almost exclusively in the synagogues. This was the exact same approach that Paul had for his own ministry. They went to the Jews first and then the gentiles. In Jesus’ case, the Jews were partially responsive.<\/p>\n
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