Étude 1 sur 8 · Le retour de Marie à Nazareth

  1. Study 1: Mary's return to Nazareth
  2. Étude 2 : Le quatrième et dernier songe de Joseph
  3. Étude 3 : Le retour à Nazareth
  4. Étude 4 : Un passage à Capernaüm
  5. Étude 5 : Le retour en Galilée
  6. Study 6: Difficulties in Nazareth
  7. Étude 7 : Retour à Nazareth
  8. Étude 8 : Jésus parlait-il le grec ?

The life of Jesus up to the age of 12

  • PER009 Mary's return to Nazareth

    The article examines Mary's return to Nazareth after visiting Elizabeth. Familiar with the prophecies, Mary witnesses John's birth, confirming his future role in God's plan. She returns with her family after the Passover pilgrimage.

    Luke 1.56 (King James Version) :
    And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.
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  • PER026 Joseph's fourth and final dream

    Joseph receives divine instructions in a dream, leading him to return to Nazareth with his family rather than Bethlehem. Matthew emphasises that this decision fulfils the prophecy that Jesus will be called a Nazarene.

    Matthew 2.22-23 (King James Version) :
    But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
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  • PER027 The return to Nazareth

    The article analyses Jesus' return to Nazareth, contrasting Matthew's and Luke's accounts and their distinct aims. Matthew, addressing Jews, mentions the stay in Egypt to highlight a prophecy, whereas Luke omits it, aiming instead at a non-Jewish audience.

    Hosea 11.1 (King James Version) :
    When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.Notetake off: Heb. lift up
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The ministry of John the Baptist

  • PER037 A visit to Capernaum

    After the wedding at Cana, Jesus the Messiah visits Capernaum with his family around 1 December 29. Only John reports this episode (John 2:12). He meets his disciples Peter, Andrew, James and John there and befriends Zebedee and Salome. This town later becomes the headquarters of his Galilean ministry. After this visit, he returns to Nazareth before joining John the Baptist at Aenon.

    John 1.44 (King James Version) :
    Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
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The beginning of the ministry in Galilee

  • PER048 The return to Galilee

    The article describes Jesus’ return to Galilee, drawing on the Gospels and key locations such as Capernaum and Nazareth. It explains how these journeys marked the beginning of a more strategic and influential ministry.

    Luke 4.14-15 (King James Version) :
    And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
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  • PER050 Difficulties in Nazareth

    The article explores Jesus’ return to Nazareth, where he faces the unbelief of his fellow townspeople. Although seen as the Messiah after his miracles in Capernaum, he is rejected, illustrating the proverb ‘No prophet is honoured in his own country.’

    Luke 4.16-30 (King James Version) :
    And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
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From the second to the third Passover festival

  • PER161 Return to Nazareth

    The second return of Jesus to Nazareth (March AD 32) is recounted by Matthew and Mark. Despite his teaching in the synagogue, the townspeople reject him because of their familiarity with him and his family. Their lack of faith limits his miracles. Jesus utters the famous saying: ‘A prophet is despised only in his own country.’ Mark adds details absent from Matthew: the presence of the disciples and Jesus’ astonishment at their unbelief.

    Mark 6.5 (King James Version) :
    And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
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Historical notes

  • INF006 Did Jesus speak Greek?

    The article examines the likelihood that Jesus spoke Greek. Although he was born in Nazareth, an isolated town, the Gospels report direct dialogues between Jesus and Pilate and Roman officers with no mention of an interpreter. The author suggests that work as a carpenter in Sepphoris, a Hellenized city, and possible local teaching explain this probable command of Greek.

    Matthew 8.5 (King James Version) :
    And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
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Further reading
  • ANN042 Travel times

    This appendix examines means of travel and journey times in the first century. In Jesus' time, people travelled mainly on foot, in caravans or…

  • ANN060 The city of Sepphoris

    L'article dissèque le rôle clé de Sépphoris en Galilée, proche de Nazareth, et sa signification culturelle et historique, bien que non mentionnée dans les…