When Jesus came to Nazareth, he said to the people in the synagogue: 'Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his ...

There was no one better than Rabbi Jacob Neusner — one of the most knowledgeable living experts on Judaism — to dialogue with the theologian Archbishop Bruno Forte on the Sermon on the Mount. The ...

Luke begins his narration of Jesus’s ministry with two incidents: the first, is his appearance in the synagogue at Nazareth; the second, a typical day at Capernaeum, the lakeside town where Jesus ...

Last Sunday, Jesus proclaimed his identity (Messiah) and mission (liberation from sin) to the synagogue in Nazareth. This Sunday, we hear their reaction. The Gospel picks up where it left off last ...

Jesus was a Jew. This rudimentary fact about the Son of Man is often overlooked by Christians, who are habitually prone to emphasize the differences rather than the similarities between their religion ...

The synagogue at Capernaum (K’far Nahum in Hebrew), recorded in the New Testament as one of the first places where Jesus of Nazareth spoke to the people, will be reconstructed. An agreement concerning ...

Editor’s note • The Salt Lake Tribune’s senior religion writer, Peggy Fletcher Stack, is on assignment in the Middle East. Besides her deeper reporting, she is sharing shorter daily dispatches. This ...