Rejection of God’s Mission

| Today’s Gospel continues the story that we heard last week. But whereas last week’s Gospel left the congregation of the synagogue marvelling at the grace that came from Jesus lips (they were amazed), this week they turn against him. They asked Jesus to do something like he did in Capernaum. His response is that “No prophet is ever accepted in his own country”, Jesus tells them, but it is clearly something more than Jesus the man that is being rejected here. It is what he stands for, what he represents.