TODAY THIS SCRIPTURE IS FULFILLED
“And He began to say to them, Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. ” (Luke 4:21 NKJV). Jesus had just been in the wilderness for forty days of fasting. It was the Spirit of God that led Him there. At the end of His fast Satan tried to divert the Lord from the purpose that He had been sent to earth to fulfill. Of course, Satan failed in his attempts, and Jesus returned out of the wilderness "in the power of the Spirit" and entered into Galilee. At that time Galilee was one of three provinces in Palestine - Judea and Samaria were the other two. It was referred to as "Galilee of the Gentiles" because of the large percentage of Gentiles that inhabited the area. To say that the "purer" Israelites of Judea looked down their noses at the Galileans, and felt superior to them, would be an understatement. When Philip first told Nathaniel about Jesus, Nathaniel’s comment was, "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?"