Read Luke 4:14-21 with your family.

The video of our story shows part one and two, but this week we are focusing on part one: Jesus reading the scrolls and then sitting down to start teaching.

This is the first story of Jesus returning to the town he grew up in after his baptism, and after he started his ministry teaching everyone about God’s new world. The people of Nazareth were so excited to have Jesus return, that they gave him the honour of a visiting teacher and asked him to read from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Jesus was becoming famous and they wanted to claim him as their own and listen to what he had to say.

However, when Jesus finally spoke it was not what they had expected.

They expected Jesus to talk about important things like faith in God and being special, but instead Jesus read the scroll and then sat down and said he was the answer to the promise in the scripture.

No one was prepared for that message.