V.1-6 Jesus leaves Jerusalem and goes up North to where He had lived most of His human life. He preaches in their synagogues, but the people can’t understand how a person who was a carpenter could speak such wisdom and do such miracles. They couldn’t relate the greatness with the humanity. They didn’t know that Almighty God had become a Man, and that He was speaking to them! But we must remember that what God is, is much more displayed in the humbleness of this Man than if He had come as a powerful and glorious king! Only being a carpenter was enough to make the people reject Him.
V.5 Tells us the effect of unbelief!
V.7-13 The Lord sends out His twelve apostles. We have a proof of His power more remarkable than His own miracles, and that is that He gives others, the power to perform in miracles themselves. Only God could do this.
V.11 What a judgment pronounced by one Who had the power to carry it out!
V.14-29 When King Herod heard of the works of Jesus, his conscience bothered him, and he immediately recalled what he had done to John the Baptist. The details of that dreadful party are told. Herod prided himself on his power, but it only proved his weakness, and his wickedness.