His journey through Galilee

After leaving Capernaum with His disciples, Jesus walked all over Galilee, preaching and performing miracles. The rumor about Him went far beyond the borders of Galilee, throughout all Syria; the sick and demoniac were brought to Him from afar, from the Decapolis (the region on the left side of the Jordan), from Judea, and even from Jerusalem. He healed everyone, and many of those who were healed and delivered from evil spirits, as well as those who brought them, followed Jesus, listening to His teaching.

Jesus' Arrival in Nazareth

We know that when Jesus returned from Judea to Galilee, He did not go to Nazareth, where He had spent most of His life, and that He did so because He was sure that the people of Nazareth would not believe in Him, as they usually did

a prophet has no honor in his own country (John 4:44). Now, going through all the cities and villages of Galilee, accompanied by the disciples and the crowd of those who were healed by Him and believed in Him, now, when His fame had spread throughout all Syria, when in His homeland, it would seem, they should have honored Him, even if only as a Prophet... now He is coming to Nazareth; but He comes, of course, not out of vanity, not in order to receive the honors due to Him, but in order not to deprive His divine teaching of those with whom He has lived for so long, who, it would seem, should have been the first to believe in Him. Apparently, He deliberately delayed His arrival in Nazareth for a long time, giving the inhabitants of this city time and opportunity to learn what extraordinary miracles He performed, what crowds of people constantly follow Him, and how many have already recognized in Him the long-awaited Messiah-Christ.

His preaching in the synagogue of Nazareth

And now Jesus comes to Nazareth accompanied by His disciples, enters the synagogue (it was a Sabbath day) and goes straight to the place from which the law and the prophets were read. He opens the book of the prophet Isaiah given to Him and begins to read the passage where the prophet speaks on behalf of the Messiah, who is to come, about the purpose of His coming. Through the mouth of the prophet, the Messiah says that He was sent by God to announce to all the poor, the poor, the unfortunate, the humble workers that the Kingdom of God is coming for them, to heal by a call to repentance and by preaching love and mercy all those who are crushed for their sins, to declare that even inveterate sinners, captives of sin, by repentance and good works, can receive liberation from the sinful bonds that bind them, to give sight to those who are who, by false teachings and misinterpretations, have been driven to blindness to the true light of the Scriptures, to a lack of understanding of its true meaning, to set free all of them, here tormented, all the poor, contrite in heart, fallen under the power of sin, blinded, and to preach the coming of the Kingdom of God's love and mercy.