# Jesus and His Ministry - The Gospels

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 12 Feb 2024, 11 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 151. he people of Galilee welcome Jesus warmly, remembering His wonders in Jerusalem. In Cana, where He once turned water into wine, a royal official pleads with Jesus to heal his dying son. Demonstrating His power even from a distance, Jesus heals the boy, leading the official's family to believe in Him. This miraculous act is Jesus' second sign in Galilee. Jesus then moves to Capernaum, fulfilling Isaiah's prophecy, and preaches about the need for repentance as the kingdom of heaven is near. During a visit to Nazareth, Jesus reads from Isaiah in the synagogue, declaring the fulfillment of the scripture in Him. However, His message of hope and freedom isn't received well in His hometown. The townspeople, unable to see beyond Jesus' familiar background, react with anger and disbelief. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for childxren with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:03] Speaker 1: Dear God, everything you do is good. Thank you that
[0:12] Speaker 1: you came to help us see your truth and to
[0:15] Speaker 1: be free in you. You came to do great things
[0:19] Speaker 1: in our hearts, in our lives. So help us to
[0:22] Speaker 1: listen to you and obey you no matter what. Please
[0:26] Speaker 1: teach us more about who you are in today's story.
[0:29] Speaker 1: so we can be more like you. You are so
[0:33] Speaker 1: good and we love you so much. In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:13] Speaker 3: Jesus and His Ministry In our last story, we saw
[1:18] Speaker 3: Jesus speaking with a Samaritan woman on His way to
[1:22] Speaker 3: Galilee and gave her living water. In this story, Jesus
[1:28] Speaker 3: will arrive in Galilee and began his ministry of preaching
[1:32] Speaker 3: and healing, and even returned to teach in his hometown
[1:37] Speaker 3: of Nazareth, as inspired by the Gospels.
[1:45] Speaker 1: Well, hi, it's Julianne Thompson, guest hosting for Julia Jeffress
[1:48] Speaker 1: Sadler with the Kids Bible in Ear podcast. I am
[1:51] Speaker 1: so happy you're here today. In this story, we get
[1:55] Speaker 1: to hear what happens when Jesus goes to visit his
[1:58] Speaker 1: friends at home. and how they were surprised and not
[2:02] Speaker 1: very happy to hear what he said. Well, let's jump in.
[2:09] Speaker 3: Jesus went to Galilee when he found out that John
[2:12] Speaker 3: the Baptist had been thrown into prison. Jesus arrived and
[2:16] Speaker 3: taught the people. The people in Galilee welcomed him and
[2:20] Speaker 3: saw everything he had done during the Passover festival in Jerusalem.
[2:25] Speaker 3: He then visited Cana. the place where he had turned
[2:28] Speaker 3: water into wine, and a royal official was there who
[2:32] Speaker 3: had a very sick son. So he begged Jesus to
[2:36] Speaker 3: heal his son because he was dying. Jesus said, You
[2:41] Speaker 3: people do not believe unless you see signs and wonders.
[2:46] Speaker 3: The man asked him to please come before his son dies.
[2:50] Speaker 3: Jesus said, Go, and he will live. The man headed
[2:55] Speaker 3: back home, and ran into one of his servants on
[2:58] Speaker 3: the way. The servant told him that the boy was fine,
[3:01] Speaker 3: and it was in the afternoon that the fever went away.
[3:05] Speaker 3: The man realized his son was healed at the same
[3:08] Speaker 3: time Jesus told him his son would be healed. So
[3:12] Speaker 3: he and his family believed. That was the second sign
[3:17] Speaker 3: that Jesus performed after coming to Galilee. He moved away
[3:22] Speaker 3: from Nazareth and decided to live in Capernaum, which fulfilled
[3:26] Speaker 3: what Isaiah had prophesied, Jesus started to preach and said,
[3:32] Speaker 3: Everyone needs to confess their sins, for the kingdom of
[3:36] Speaker 3: heaven is coming soon. News spread as Jesus was teaching
[3:41] Speaker 3: in synagogues, and one Sabbath he was in the synagogue
[3:45] Speaker 3: of his hometown of Nazareth. Everyone listened to him and
[3:49] Speaker 3: enjoyed his teachings. On Sabbath, Jesus read from the scroll
[3:54] Speaker 3: of Isaiah, And it said, The Spirit of the Lord
[3:58] Speaker 3: is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim
[4:01] Speaker 3: the good news to the poor. He has sent me
[4:05] Speaker 3: to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight
[4:09] Speaker 3: for the blind, to set the oppressed free, and to
[4:13] Speaker 3: proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Jesus handed the
[4:17] Speaker 3: scroll to someone in the synagogue and sat with the people.
[4:21] Speaker 3: He said to them, The Scripture has been fulfilled today.
[4:25] Speaker 3: as you were listening. Everyone asked, Isn't he Joseph's son?
[4:31] Speaker 3: Jesus said to them, You want me to perform miracles
[4:35] Speaker 3: here in my hometown like I have in other places.
[4:39] Speaker 3: But no prophet is accepted in their own hometown. When
[4:44] Speaker 3: Elijah was here, God sent him to a Gentile widow.
[4:48] Speaker 3: There were many sick with leprosy in Israel, but Elisha
[4:53] Speaker 3: was only sent to heal one, another Gentile, Naaman. All
[5:00] Speaker 3: the people were very mad when they heard this. They
[5:04] Speaker 3: made him leave town and tried to throw him off
[5:08] Speaker 3: a cliff. But Jesus walked through the crowd and left.
[5:18] Speaker 1: Old neighbors? An angry mob? And Jesus almost going over
[5:23] Speaker 1: a cliff?
[5:24] Speaker 3: Whoa!
[5:25] Speaker 1: Today's story had a lot going on. But every story
[5:29] Speaker 1: about Jesus tells us something about God. So let's see
[5:33] Speaker 1: what this story tells us. Jesus had been doing a
[5:37] Speaker 1: lot of unexpected things, hasn't he? Between Jerusalem, Samaria, and Galilee,
[5:43] Speaker 1: he's been bending a lot of rules. Now, you know
[5:47] Speaker 1: the world we live in has physical rules, right? Like gravity.
[5:51] Speaker 1: Gravity is what makes things fall to the ground, not
[5:54] Speaker 1: stay up in the air when you drop them. And
[5:57] Speaker 1: because things always fall when you drop them, we call
[6:00] Speaker 1: this the law of gravity. Well, when Jesus was doing miracles,
[6:05] Speaker 1: he was bending physical laws. It was like super science.
[6:10] Speaker 1: But since he made the world, he knew how to
[6:13] Speaker 1: do it. When he turned water into wine, he just
[6:16] Speaker 1: switched all the molecules around. And when he healed people,
[6:20] Speaker 1: like the royal official's son, he probably told all those
[6:24] Speaker 1: germs causing that fever just to get on out of there.
[6:28] Speaker 1: To the people, all this bending of physical rules looked
[6:32] Speaker 1: like miracles. And they loved it. It made everyone excited
[6:37] Speaker 1: to be around him. They wanted to see Jesus do
[6:40] Speaker 1: cool tricks or fix all their problems. But is that
[6:44] Speaker 1: why Jesus came? No! Jesus also started bending social rules. Now,
[6:51] Speaker 1: you know that our cultures have social rules, right? Like manners.
[6:55] Speaker 1: They make people say, bless you when you sneeze or
[6:58] Speaker 1: keep your mouth closed when you chew. There are other
[7:01] Speaker 1: social rules too, and they're what make our communities work
[7:05] Speaker 1: the way they do. Well, when Jesus did things like
[7:09] Speaker 1: speaking to the Samaritan woman... or calling regular guys, not
[7:13] Speaker 1: super religious guys, to be his followers, Jesus was bending
[7:18] Speaker 1: social rules. Nobody expected him to love the people no
[7:22] Speaker 1: one else even liked or respected the ones everybody else
[7:26] Speaker 1: laughed at. But since he made those people, he couldn't
[7:31] Speaker 1: help but love them. The people weren't sure what to
[7:34] Speaker 1: think about this, especially in Jesus' hometown of Nazareth. When
[7:39] Speaker 1: he came home to visit, All the people who had
[7:42] Speaker 1: known him since he was a little boy had heard
[7:44] Speaker 1: what he'd done in Canaan and Galilee. And they probably
[7:48] Speaker 1: expected him to bend a few rules and do them
[7:52] Speaker 1: some special favors. Hey, Jesus, we go way back. I've
[7:56] Speaker 1: got this crick in my neck. Can you do something
[7:58] Speaker 1: about that? Hey, Jesus, I'd love to have you over
[8:02] Speaker 1: for dinner, but I haven't been able to go to
[8:05] Speaker 1: the market. Can you bring the wine? And like many,
[8:08] Speaker 1: many people, They have wanted to see Jesus do tricks
[8:12] Speaker 1: or fix all their problems. But is that why Jesus came? No.
[8:19] Speaker 1: Jesus had actually come to break religious rules. And that's
[8:23] Speaker 1: what he told everybody in the synagogue that day. When
[8:27] Speaker 1: he read the scroll, he applied Isaiah's words to himself.
[8:32] Speaker 1: The spirit of the Lord is on me, Jesus.
[8:35] Speaker 3: Yes.
[8:36] Speaker 1: Because he anointed me, Jesus, to proclaim the good news
[8:40] Speaker 1: to the poor. He has sent me, Jesus, to proclaim
[8:43] Speaker 1: freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,
[8:48] Speaker 1: to set the oppressed free, and to proclaim the year
[8:50] Speaker 1: of the Lord's favor. You see, all of Jesus' rule-breaking
[8:56] Speaker 1: was so that everyone could hear God's good news and
[9:00] Speaker 1: see God's truth and experience God's freedom. Rules would never
[9:05] Speaker 1: again keep anybody out of God's favor. But no one
[9:10] Speaker 1: would get special treatment to get into God's favor either.
[9:13] Speaker 1: Not the Jews, not the religious people, not even people
[9:17] Speaker 1: from Nazareth who went way back with Jesus. But he
[9:21] Speaker 1: wouldn't do tricks or fix all their problems because he
[9:24] Speaker 1: wanted to give them so much more. Something new and
[9:28] Speaker 1: unexpected was happening. No matter who you were, everybody now
[9:33] Speaker 1: welcome in God's kingdom. And everyone would get into it
[9:38] Speaker 1: the same way through Jesus. That's why he came. I
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