I read the following on the internet:
> Jesus continued practicing Judaism, per Luke 4:16 ("as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read").
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> The Pharisees criticized Jesus because they (incorrectly) thought he violated God's commandments, something they wouldn't have cared about if he hadn't been Jewish.
[Luke 4:16](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204&version=NIV) says:
> He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place [where it is written](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2061&version=NIV) :
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> "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
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> Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, “**Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing**.”
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> All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. **“Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked**.
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> Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”
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> “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of **Sidon** [in Lebanon]. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the **Syrian**.”
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> **All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this**. **They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff**. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.
As reported, above, Jesus speaks from Isaiah. The [Isaiah passage](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2061&version=NIV) continues to say:
> They will **rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations**. Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards. And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. **You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast**. Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so **you will inherit a double portion in your land**, and everlasting joy will be yours. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them. Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed
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> I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
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>The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “**Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled**; but those who harvest it will eat it and praise the Lord, and those who gather the grapes will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”
Jesus later did not appear to teach what Isaiah taught. In fact, the very opposite, for example, Jesus's ministry did not appear concerned with accruing worldly material wealth ([Matthew 6:24](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206%3A24&version=NIV)) ; Jesus appeared to prophesize the destruction of The Temple & the towns ([Mark 13:1-3](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2013%3A1%2D3&version=NIV)) ; and Jesus appeared to deemphasize Jewish tribal identity ([Luke 10:25-37](https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=good+Samaritan&version=NIV) ; [Colossians 3:11-13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%203%3A11%2D13&version=NIV)) .
Is/was it the "practice of Judaism" to publicly claim you are a special anointed Prophet, to quote the Jewish prophets out of context, to praise Gentiles in Lebanon and Syria, and to make the Jewish congregation so angry to throw you off a cliff?
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Jul 17, 2024, 01:13 AM
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