Dwelt in Capernaum (Κατωικησεν εις Καφαρναουμ). He went first to Nazareth, his old home, but was rejected there ([Reference Luke 4…

Leaving Nazareth. Because His townsmen cast Him out and rejected Him. See Luke 4:14-30.

Came and dwelt in Capernaum. This …

Leaving Nazareth—The form of the name in the older manuscripts is Nazara. Saint Matthew records the bare fact. Saint Luke ([Refere…

Note how the movements of our King are all ordered according to divine prophecy. Leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum to fulfi…

Rabanus Maurus: After relating the forty days' fast, the temptation of Christ, and the ministry of Angels, Matthew continues, …

Jesus moved from Nazareth to Capernaum (cf. Lk 4:31), a village on the northwest shore of Lake Galilee. This village enjoyed a fishing industry tha…

And having left Nazareth, I have thought it proper to introduce this passage of Matthew immediately after Luke’s narrative, which we have …

And leaving Nazareth
Where he was educated, and had lived many years together; and where he preached first to the go…

It is just for God to take the gospel and the means of grace from those who disregard them and thrust them away. Christ will not stay long where he…

The Evangelist showed how Christ was tried and approved, specifically by conquering the devil; here he shows how Christ began to teach. In this reg…