The path to knowledge remains fraught with obstacles and pitfalls—and just about pushes Jesus over the cliff! (4:29–30). Jesus’s inaugural sermon proceeds through a three-stage text-and-commentary sequence based on two prophetic passages and one popular proverb. Audience response modulates from initially ambivalent to ultimately violent. Jesus reads a blended text from Isa 61:1–2 and 58:6 announcing the Spirit-anointed vocation of
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