By Jon Schell When Jesus returned to Nazareth, He spoke in the synagogue in front of people that he grew up with, according to Luke 4:22-30. Here, He should have been a hometown hero, but He wasn’t.

Our Gospel today is about the Rejection of our Lord Jesus Christ in his very own native Nazareth and on a larger scale the whole of Israel. There is a lesson for all of us in this story, because ...

Jesus meets an incredulous group of people from his home town in this Wednesday’s Gospel reading (Mark 6:1-6). It’s a fascinating text, and it has a surprising number of interesting details ...

Luke begins his narration of Jesus’s ministry with two incidents: the first, is his appearance in the synagogue at Nazareth; the second, a typical day at Capernaeum, the lakeside town where Jesus ...

Yet Jesus himself always went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day. Also, Paul reminds us to “not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is…” (Hebrews 10:25).

An ancient synagogue unearthed on the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee might have been a temple where Jesus preached, the Catholic organisation Legion of Christ is claiming. Father Eamon Kelly, ...

Mind you, 2,000 years ago, our Lord Jesus was rejected in his own place in Nazareth. Then the entire Jewish people also rejected him and even had him crucified.