By Derl G. Keefer
Luke 4:14-21
Galilee is geographically north of Palestine and
surrounded by non-Jewish nations. Those nations influenced the
outlook, philosophy, progression and theology of the Jews. William
Barclay tells us that Josephus — the Jewish historian and former
governor of the area — said that he governed 204 villages or towns,
none of them with less than 15,000 people. The three million people
of the area were the least religiously conservative of the Israeli
nation.
Josephus writes...
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