Stories From The New Testament: Chapter 12 - A Birthday Party Ends in Tragedy - Shirley King Johnson - December 1982

Shirley King Johnson

The 12 disciples might well have felt some apprehension, though they may not have said anything, when Jesus announced to them that He was going to visit His mother. It was in Nazareth, after all, that the leaders of the synagogue had wanted to kill Him. Jesus, however, seemed unworried about possible trouble, and set out for the village where He lived in His youth. The disciples followed, perhaps somewhat reluctantly. Walking along with Jesus in the lead, the disciples divided into little groups of twos and threes. Judas, the treasurer and keeper of the money bags, stayed in the middle of the procession for fear, he said, of lurking highway robbers. I In Nazareth they found that the towns-people continued to be resentful. The majority scorned the man they disparagingly called "the carpenter's son." They knew that His mother, brothers and sisters lived among them. Jesus was a mere "nobody" to them. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library