Painting of the Holy Family by Bartolome Esteban Murillo. Luke 11:28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."Yesterday's reading about the famous passage from Luke 11: 9 So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
Before the ask, seek, knock verse, Jesus tells us of the effort put into ask, seek & knock. The Pharisee who mocks the Lord, doesn't put effort into asking, seeking or knocking to see how Jesus fits into plan hidden for ages. The Pharisees put effort into the trap to kill Jesus. But God overcomes that trouble and the world.
John 7:37-52Listen – web link http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=John+7%3A37-52
37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
40 When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee? 42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43 So there was a division among the people over him. 44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
45 The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” 46 The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!” 47 The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? 48 Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? 49 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” 50 Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, 51 “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” 52 They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”
The faithful have faith: [23] Nazareth . . . he shall be called a Nazorean: Jesus' residence in Nazareth was firmly established, and St. Matthew (Levy), the Jewish Gospel Writer, sees it in accordance with the plan of God. The town of Nazareth is not mentioned in the Old Testament, and no such prophecy can be found there. The expression "through the prophets" due to Matthew seeing a connection between Nazareth, neser and nazir. Texts in which there are words similar to the name of that town. Some such Old Testament texts are Isaiah 11:1 where the Davidic king of the future is called "a bud" (neser) that shall blossom from the roots of Jesse, and Judges 13:5, 7 where Samson, the future deliverer of Israel from the Philistines, is called one who shall be consecrated (a nazir) to God.
Isaiah 9
1 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan-
2 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.
Matthew 2:19-23 But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead.” 21 And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee. 23 And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled: “He shall be called a Nazarene.”
Luke 1: 80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the desert until he appeared publicly to Israel.
Jesus was born in Bethlehem:
Luke 2: 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to his own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
Matthew 2: 6, Also Micah 5:2 : “‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
Genesis 35:19
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Ruth 1:1
[Naomi and Ruth] In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.
1 Samuel 16:18
One of the servants answered, "I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the LORD is with him."
Flee to Egypt: Egypt was a traditional place of refuge for those fleeing from danger in Palestine (see 1 Kings 11:40; Jeremiah 26:21), but the main reason why Jesus is to be taken to Egypt is that he may relive the Exodus experience of Israel. Matthew 2: 15.
The adult Jesus:
Mark 2:1 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.
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