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Luke 4:14-16
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Jesus goes to Nazareth

14 Then Jesus returned to Galilee. The Holy Spirit continued to give him power. Everyone who lived near there heard the news about him. 15 He taught people in the Jewish meeting places.[a] Everyone said good things about him.

16 Jesus went to Nazareth, the town where he had grown up. On the Jewish day of rest, he went to their meeting place.[b] This was what he usually did. He stood up to read aloud from the Bible.[c]

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  1. 4:15 Jews used their meeting places to pray together and to learn more about God.
  2. 4:16 The Jewish day of rest is our Saturday. This was a special day for them, when nobody worked.
  3. 4:16 The Bible that the Jews read was the Old Testament. See Isaiah 58:6; 61:1-2.
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