In Luke 4, Jesus stands up in the synagogue at Nazareth, reads from Isaiah 61, and declares the prophecy fulfilled in their hearing. Dr. Brant Pitre explains what that first sermon reveals about Jesus' identity — and why it put him on a collision course with the Pharisees.
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— In this video —
• How Jesus' reading of Isaiah 61 in the Nazareth synagogue is his first public claim to be the Messiah
• What synagogue worship and lay preaching actually looked like in first-century Judaism
• Why the Pharisees, not the Temple priests, became Jesus' first and most frequent opponents
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