After relating terrible events that must happen before Christ’s coming, this text leaves believers with a simple message – Stand Firm!
The extraordinary events in Jerusalem and the mundane events in Nazareth reveal Jesus' uniqueness and his ordinariness.
Two stories combine to show how Jesus has power to make people whole again and to call us to believe his words.
In his sermon to the synagogue in Antioch, Paul emphasized that Jesus is the fulfillment of all of Old Testament history and prophecy.
