What chapter did Jesus read at the synagogue in Nazareth? What was noteworthy about the passage as well as the spot He chose to end His reading? BIB 547-2 - 17-2

After contending with Satan for 40 days in the desert, Jesus came home to Nazareth and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and read, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” Luke 4:18-19 “And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” Luke 4: 21.

Jesus was reading from Isaiah 61:1-2 and stopped reading before, “and the day of vengeance of our God,” So after reading the portion of Isaiah referring to the “suffering Messiah” Jesus stopped short of declaring Himself as the conquering Messiah to come.

Not being very PC, Jesus went on “And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.” Luke 4:24 Jesus further inflamed those in the synagogue by mentioning Gentiles who were helped by Old Testament prophets.

Psalm 69:8 and 12 give some insight into why Jesus was rebuffed by those in Nazareth, “I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.” “They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards”

While not during His time in Nazareth , the theme of rejection at His first coming and His returning in glory at His second coming continues, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” Matthew 23:37-39

In my opinion, the blindness that Jesus pronounced on Israel is beginning to lift, “Orthodox Rabbi Reveals Name of Messiah ‘JESUS’, ‘Yehoshua’ or ‘Yeshua.’”

“A few months before he died, one of the nation’s most prominent rabbis, Yitzhak Kaduri, supposedly wrote the name of the Messiah on a small note which he requested would remain sealed until now. When the note was unsealed, it revealed what many have known for centuries: Yehoshua, or Yeshua (Jesus), is the Messiah.” Complete article:
http://s8int.com/phile/page57.html

Here is an interesting Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0DTT3u2JZ8
No surprise that many of the Rabbi’s followers deny that the note is authentic, however, more and more Jews are realizing that Jesus was the suffering Messiah and is the Lion of Judah to come.

Added Later:

After the Pharisees lost the right to enforce capital punishment, they thought that the scepter had departed from Judah counter to, "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his." Genesis 49:10 And to think Jesus was in Israel as the Pharisees were sure this verse was not fulfilled. The denial is still very much a fact in Israel.

And of course Jesus had a few politically incorrect things to say about those who should have known the prophecies. "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness." Matthew 23:27