Happy New Year!
I never get tired of walking the streets of ancient Nazareth. Each time I learn something new! And, I planned to share this as my first post for 2023 a while ago, having no idea that The Chosen's Season 3 Episode 3 would feature the events that took place here, and the location for this week's posts.
AMAZING!
This time, I got to visit a completely new (for me) place: a church built over the synagogue where Jesus read from the Isaiah scroll in Luke 4:
Like we talked about a lot on this blog, in Israel things are built on top of the original buildings, which is why you can often see ancient foundations at sites. An excellent example of this is the synagogue at Capernaum, whose white synagogue is from 4th century AD, but is built in the same location as the original synagogue. So tradition holds that this is the location where Jesus read those words, but not the same building. It's beautiful to see, even on a rainy day:
Can you just see it it happening here? "The Spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me..."
Of course, because of this, the townspeople tried to drag Him out of the town and throw Him off Mount Precipice.... but that's Wednesday's post!
Stay tuned...
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