The Visits to Gadara & Nazareth

It's always a joy to be able to open up the Word of God and study it, especially look at the life of our Savior, such a rich opportunity that God has given us through presenting us with four different perspectives on the life of his Son, four different angles, four different glances at him and views of him, and to be able to put those altogether, the kaleidoscope, if you will, of stories and accounts of his life, put them all together into a beautiful picture of what it means for him to come to this earth and to minister, to live and to die. It's a wonderful opportunity we have to study the life of Christ. We've been in a section of the life of Christ called the Great Galilee and Ministry for some time, and the reason for that is it is an 18-month period of our Lord's life, and very intense ministry takes place during that time, particularly in the region of Galilee. And what we have seen in the last couple of weeks is that Jesus has come to a very critical turning point in his ministry, where the Pharisees have spoken as the religious leaders of the people of Israel and basically have rejected Christ, rejected his kingship, rejected his Messiahship, his kingdom, and they have basically said, we do not believe you are the Messiah, we believe you're an imposter, we believe you come from Satan and do your miracles by the power of Satan. And Jesus will hold them, the rest of his ministry will hold them responsible for an official rejection of him as the king. Right after that, we found that Jesus talked about the parables of the kingdom, interesting turning point even in his teaching, using parables for one thing to make clear truth to those who were believers, to hide truth from those who have rejected him. And then the content of those parables showing that the kingdom now takes a turn, there's a sense in which the kingdom offered to Israel is now being postponed, and it will not be set up until the Lord's second coming to this earth. But the kingdom takes a different form now in the age in which we live, and that's what the parables of the kingdom are all about. So we've just come through that very critical turning point of our Lord's ministry. As a part of that, we saw that Jesus said to the Pharisees, he would give them no more signs, in fact he would give this generation of Israel no more signs. And we saw that that didn't mean he would do no more miracles because he does do more miracles. In fact, the accounts we're going to look at tonight are just a quick succession of miracles. So he will continue to do miracles, but they will not be given as signs, credentials of his Messiah ship to the nation. They will continue to be done out of acts of mercy of our Lord, compassion for people who had need, and then also to teach and train his disciples. And the first thing we're going to look at tonight is for that purpose to train and teach his disciples to instruct them. So let's take a look at the first miracle we'll look at tonight. Jesus stills the storm. On your outline you see that it's covered in the first three gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. We're going to look at Mark's account tonight. So if you'll open your Bible to Mark chapter 4, Mark chapter 4, beginning in verse 35. Mark says that day when evening came, what day is that? It's the day that he told them the parables of the kingdom, that day that he gave them that teaching, and then further instructed his disciples along those lines. It was that day, that same day. Now it's grown toward the evening time. The Bible says in verse 35, he said to his disciples, let us go over to the other side, the other side of what? Well let's look at the map. Remember that Jesus has been doing most of his ministry out of cappernum and in this north Galilee region. He's made a couple of tours already of the entire area of Galilee. He spent some time in Cana, did a little teaching in the synagogue in the Azeroth, but most of his ministry has been in this area around cappernum. This is where he's been just recently. So when he says go to the other side, he's talking about the other side of the sea of Galilee. We'll see where he's going to end up in chapter 5 is Gurghasa or sometimes called Gidara, but he's going to cross the sea of Galilee to get to the other side. He says the other side, that's what he's talking about. Verse 36, leaving the crowd behind, they took him along just as he was in the boat. There were also other boats with him. Jesus is very, very tired at this point. He has had an incredible stretch of ministry. Remember we have just seen that the crowds pressed in on him so much as he was teaching and doing miracles that he didn't even have time to eat. So there's a sense in which he's getting away from that. They get onto this boat and look at what happens in verse 37. A furious squall came up and the waves broke over the boat so that it was nearly swamped. Now the sea of Galilee is really a very small sea. It's also referred to in the New Testament as a lake. It's not that big. It's about 15 miles long and just a few miles wide. You can see across it from one side to the other. So it seems strange that a huge storm would come up. Let me show you some pictures that will help you maybe to understand why storms arise so quickly. This is a very sudden and ferocious storm that comes up. I mean very quickly. And here's the reason why. The sea of Galilee looks very placid and peaceful, doesn't it? Beautiful sunset on the sea of Galilee. And just, it looks very nice. But you see these mountains here on the west. Part of the reason why the sea of Galilee can grow so turbulent so quickly. And the other reason is on the east side with mountains that look like this next picture. The cliffs of our bell. This is a fascinating viewpoint from which to take pictures on one of our study trips when I was in Israel. We climbed to the tops of these mountains. And I wish I could say we climbed up this way. We didn't. We came the back way. Right out of the purchase of the cliffs of our bell and took pictures of the whole Galilee region, the sea of Galilee. It's just an incredibly beautiful place. But because of these high mountains on both sides of the sea of Galilee and it drops down quite quickly, let's look at the next picture. Here are other mountains on the east, excuse me, on the west side. This is a mound called hippos. Because of these mountains on both sides, what happens in Israel and you notice it as soon as you get there, wins every evening, come off the Mediterranean and blow from west to east. And so as they blow across the land, they come across these mountains on the west side of the sea of Galilee and just plunge down into the sea and then back up the other side. There's wins also come from the west and those wins can be quite cool. But when they hit the sea of Galilee where there's warm water, it just creates all kinds of furious storms and they can come up very quickly. I was reading an account of a storm that came up in 1992, very quickly on the sea of Galilee and was causing ten foot waves which was like a tsunami in one of the little coastal towns along the sea of Galilee just swept right through the city streets of this little town. I mean that kind of thing can happen almost immediately and that's what you find here. Now the next picture I think is of a boat and this is a true replica of the kind of boat that Jesus and the disciples would have been in. It is based on a boat that was found buried from the first century a few years ago and they took the dimensions of this boat, they studied back as to what woods and so forth were used and rebuilt the boat and it's on display now alongside the sea of Galilee. But this kind of boat would hold fifteen men and so it's the kind of boat that the disciples would have been able to go across the sea of Galilee with the Lord Jesus on. So okay get the picture here we're talking about a sea where furious storms with ten foot waves can come up quickly and we're talking about this size boat. We're not talking about Queen Mary, we're not talking about the Titanic, we're talking about this kind of boat and it's very open and vulnerable to the elements. So you can see when the Bible talks about a furious squall, a violent sudden storm comes up and waves are breaking over the boat. Okay you can see how that could easily happen with this kind of a boat. But it is so this is such an unusual storm that the disciples, some of whom are experienced fishermen. Remember James John, Peter and Andrew experienced fishermen have given up hope of saving the boat. That's the kind of furious storm it is. So look at verse 38, Jesus was in the stern sleeping on a cushion. This is a cushion that would typically be under a little seat where the pilot of the boat would be. And Jesus had taken this cushion using it as a pillow evidently and had fallen asleep. Now what does that tell you? Jesus is sleeping. He's not worried? Yes. That's one thing it says. He's very tired, isn't he? At peace? Yes. He's human. Yeah, he's exhausted, isn't he? I mean, this if waves are coming up over the boat, the boat is probably rocking pretty strongly and Jesus is asleep. Okay, it does show he's not worried. It does show he's at peace. It also shows he is just plain exhausted and it shows his humanity. In his humanity, he is totally exhausted that he can sleep through this kind of a storm. So middle of verse 38, the teachers woke him or the disciples woke him and said to him, teacher, don't you care if we drown? Now I do not believe that question was a request for Jesus to calm the storm. That's not what they were thinking. In fact, they're surprised when he does that. They're shocked when he does that. What they're it's really kind of an outburst against his seeming indifference to the fact that they believe they're all going to die. Even the experienced fisherman who are used to fishing on the sea of Galilee, they're no doubt accustomed to storms because most of them will come up at night and most of the fishing was done at night. And so they're accustomed to that, but they believe they're going to die. So this is not a calm request for Jesus. Would you please wake up and do something about this? That's not what they're thinking at all. They're panic. They're in panic and their panic is such that they don't understand why he is utterly oblivious to the danger they're in. You know, so they wake him up. Teachers don't you care if we drown. Notice what he does in verse 39. He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, quiet. Be still. The wind quiet. The waves be still. Just think of this. He rebukes the wind. How would you how would you like to have been one of the disciples hearing that? I mean, you're not used to hearing anybody talk to the wind and to rebuket. Okay, indicating he has control over it. That he's managing the universe, if you will. He rebukes the wind and then he says to the waves, be still the Greek word literally means be muzzled like an animal. Get back under control. Quit your ferocious attack. Be muzzled. And notice what happens. The wind died down and it was completely calm immediately immediately. Now that's not typical. I mean, the wind may die down, but you've still got some residual wave action you would think, but not when Jesus takes care of things. When Jesus stops the wind, the waves immediately are gone and the sea is calm. And in verse 40 he says to the disciples, why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith? He puts his finger on the problem, the reason for their panic. And that is that they have no faith. What should they have been trusting? Why does Jesus say you have no faith? He didn't say you have no courage. You have no backbone. He says you have no faith. What is it that they should have been trusting here? Right. Yes, exactly. They should have been trusting him. I mean, their panic shows that they are not trusting who he is. I mean, if they really understand that he's the Messiah, the Son of God, are they going to end up on the bottom to see a Galilee with the Son of God? Trusting who he is. What else do you think they could have been? Should have been trusting. What did Jesus say to them back in verse 35? Let us go over to the other side. If Jesus says we're going to go over to the other side, don't you think you're going to get to the other side? So there is a failure to trust his person. There's also a failure to trust his word. Now, I think if we would take the time to examine our moments of panic, and we all have them, I have them. If we take the time to examine our moments of panic and fear, we will typically find that we are not trusting who he is, and we're not trusting what he's promised us, what he's told us. So their lack of faith is at the root of their panic, the root of their fear. And then notice a different kind of fear now in verse 41, they were terrified and asked each other, who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him. Isn't that an amazing question? The thing that amazes me is they do not ask, what is this? Or how was this? They ask, who is this? They're immediately focused upon the person who has done this. They're not as amazed by the lack of wave action and the sudden quiet of the wind as they are the person who has spoken. They're not saying, wow, we'd like to see that again. No, they're amazed by the one who's done it. And there's a sense in which, don't you get the sense that they're almost saying, we need to learn more about him. Now, there's disciples, they've been following and they've been hearing him teach. They've toured Galilee with him already. But they're still seeing sides of him that open up new things about him, new revelation about him that they're not sure about. They, who is this? Who is this? Even the wind and waves obey him. So they're seeing new evidence of his power that is stretching their understanding of who it is they're spending their time with. Amazing, amazing story. Okay, questions, comments about Jesus calming the storm. Yes. They didn't understand it. It's abilities to do, especially the elves. Is there, what we think of that? It's getting prepared here, do something. You know, most of his miracles up to this point have been miracles of healing and miracles of disease or casting out demons. They haven't seen him do much of this kind of thing. You're right. Now they did seem turn water into wine. That was a natural element kind of miracle. But this is on a different level. Control over nature like this. And yeah, let's give the disciples a benefit of the doubt. This is a pretty scary situation. And in wild and the storm come up anyway. To prove to the disciples that he was greater than they even thought he was. Maybe that's it. Certainly. I mean, if we really believe in the sovereignty of God, why did the storm come up? As you said, Nancy, to be used as an opportunity to teach them. God intended that. Jesus knew that storm was coming up. Obviously. Well, I suppose any attack. Yeah, any attack like this, Satan would love to do anything he could to destroy the you know, the life of Christ. And so that is one way to look at it. Yes. You know, you can look at things like this from both sides. And I think both be right because there's always spiritual warfare going on. We know that from the book of Daniel chapter 10 that when God is doing something in this universe, Satan is attacking and opposing it. And so God intends this storm to be used as an object less than to the disciples. Satan, no doubt, would have loved to have used it to capsize the boat and drown Jesus. No question. Okay, so no doubt he would love to have seen that happen. Okay. Was there another question? Comment. Yes, Biggie? I think the indication I get from verse 41 is they were terrified of him. I think it goes right along with their question, who is this? Yes. And terrified in the sense of I think of awe. And I'm not sure I want to get too close to this. Not terrified in the sense that they're afraid he would do them harm. No, no, I don't think that. But I think they are coming to understand better who he is. And they're seeing mysterious power that they are amazed at. And in that sense, yes, in awe. Yeah. I think I think that's the kind of terror that we're talking about is not it's not a fear that that Jesus will harm them, but just a recognition of awesome power. And there is a certain healthy kind of fear of I don't want to take for granted what I'm seeing here. I don't want to get I don't want to get too familiar with what I'm seeing here and not properly respect this person. I think that that kind of fear that kind of being terrified. Are we lacking in that? I think so. Yes. You know, when people throughout the Bible were brought face to face with the awesomeness of God and when they were in his presence, they all reacted as though they were going to die. You know, Isaiah did. And Isaiah 6, John in Revelation 1, falls at his feet as a dead man. And he's seeing of he's seeing Jesus. I think there's a sense in which in cases like this, Jesus glory is so overpowering, there is a fear but it's not the kind of fear that would lead them to be afraid that he would harm them or something like that. It's a good healthy recognition of his awesome power. Okay. Anything else here? All right, the next event that takes place and we're going to stay in Mark's gospel is the healing of the demoniac of Gidara. The demon possessed man often called the demoniac of Gidara. Again, this is counted in the synopics. All three of the synoptic gospels and Mark's account will stick with since we're here. Let's just begin reading it. Verse 1, they went across the lake to the region of the Gera scenes or Gatorines. It's mentioned as both. Verse 2, when Jesus got out of the boat and do we have a map here again, Tim, is there a map here? Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that we remember where this is. It's called in this map, Gérgassins or Gatorra, the Gatorines. It's titled both depending on what map you look at, depending on which Greek manuscript you use. It's said both ways. But that's where they have come across to that side of the Sea of Galilee. When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an evil spirit came from the tombs to meet him and we find in verse 6 that he's running. When he sees Jesus from a distance, he's running. So they get out of the boat and they're immediately met by this raging mad man coming toward them. Now, you know, if the disciples were already a little spooked by what they've just seen and experienced on the Sea of Galilee, now they get off the boat, maybe thinking, let's get our sea legs back. And here comes this raving lunatic toward them, you know, yelling at the top of his lungs for success. Okay, now that hasn't quite gotten there yet. But a man with an evil spirit, and that's obviously he is possessed with a demon, an evil spirit will find that really it's many demons as we get deeper into the story. But he's coming out from the tombs. The tombs would have been caves in the side of the hillside there along the sea, where this man stays. This is where he lives. And we'll see the reason why as we read on, verse three, this man lived in the tombs and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. So he's possessed with a demon. He's isolated, living out in these tombs, an outcast from society, but nobody can even keep him chained up because of a supernatural strength that he has. Okay, now verse five, a couple of other evidences of the demon possession. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills, he would cry out and cut himself with stones. The crying out, the hideous screams, no doubt, of the demons expressing themselves through him. Can you imagine the people in the town, it says this went on day and night? Can you imagine living close to this and hearing this resonate from those caves and the cutting himself with stones. Most scholars believe that this is an attempt in his raging demon possessed lunacy to try to get the demons out of him somehow. And so he's cutting himself, but demon possession often leads to self mutilation. Now I'm not saying that everyone that is into cutting or anything like that is demon possessed. Don't make that strict analogy, but demon possession always leads toward self destruction. And that can take many different forms. It can take the form of self destructive behavior, which ends up ruining your life. It can take the form of literally trying to harm yourself. Now again, please don't go to seed with that. Not everyone who tries to hurt themselves is demon possessed, but that can be the case and it certainly was here. Remember that Satan comes to kill and destroy Jesus said in John 10, son of man came to give life and give it more abundantly. Satan always destroys the image of God in man and Jesus is here to restore that to mankind. Okay, any comments or questions there before we get to what happens when he actually gets to Jesus? Any questions about this encounter to this point? Okay, verse 6. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. That's very interesting. He runs toward Jesus and then he falls on his knees before Jesus. And notice what happens in verse 7. He shouted at the top of his voice. And I'm not going to try to duplicate this, but just imagine the shouting at the top of his voice, what do you want with me? Jesus, son of the most high God. Swear to God that you won't torture me. Wow, you imagine how frightening that would be? This man cut, scarred, unkempt, undressed, naked. The Bible says later he is fully clothed after he's after Jesus cast a demon out of him. This guy's running at you and falls down and yelling at the top of his lungs. These words toward Jesus. Obviously, this is the demons speaking through the man because the demons ask him. They recognize him, first of all, Jesus, son of the most high God. Swear to God that you will not torture me. The demons are concerned that Jesus has come to cast them into punishment, to give them their final punishment. And they're pleading with him not to do that. And the reason for that verse 8, for Jesus had said to him, come out of this man, you evil spirit. Now look at the turn of events in verse 9. Jesus asked him, what is your name? My name is Legion, he replied, for we are many. Again, the demons are speaking out of this man. We are many. Legion, a Roman Legion was 6,000 soldiers, 120 cavalry, and all the support personnel for them. That was a Roman Legion. Now that's not to say necessarily that this man had 6,000 demons exactly, but it does indicate he had a lot of demons that had taken possession of his body and personality. First, Tendi, beg Jesus again and again, not to send them out of the area. Verse 11, a large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. The demons, beg Jesus, send us among the pigs, allow us to go into them. He gave them permission and the evil spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about 2000 in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. I have a picture of that cliff over which they fell into the lake. I'm sorry that I was not able to get it. All of my 1,000 pictures of Israel are on slides, and so occasionally I'll get some into photographs and then scan them. I wasn't able to do that for the night, but it's an interesting, there's a cliff in this particular area that juts right up against the sea of Galilee and you can easily see how pigs running down this meadow would just fall over into the sea of Galilee. That's what happens. Polluted the lake of Galilee, yes, as far as a Jew would be concerned, the whole lake is now unclean. There's a lot of interesting stuff going on here. The demons are concerned and convinced that Jesus is going to send them to the Abyss, Luke's Gospel, refers to it, the pit, the place where some demons are already incarcerated, according to Jude, and a place where they will be punished, probably the same Abyss or pit where Satan and all the demons will be cast in the millennium, Revelation 20, and then of course they'll be judged and cast into the lake of fire after that. But they are, they're scared that their judgment time has already come and they're pleading with Jesus. Don't send us to that place. Leave us here to do our work and what they want to do is inhabit and control somebody. If they can't do it with a person, they'll do it with an animal. One expositor said to a demon, a pig is as good as a man and they will turn a man into a pig. And that is the nature of demonic activity to turn men to animal-like behavior. And so Jesus allows them, he allows them to go into the herd of swine, the pigs, and of course the pigs are destroyed. Now what happened to the demons is anybody's guess. Any questions about what's happened up to this point before we take a look at the next section of the story, the last section which has to do with the response of the people in the Nirvath town. Comments, questions? Yes, Carolyn? The second thing to me that God can even come and file a sentence and it's striking to the that he can relate to his dislike it. He's the demon's. Yeah. And though he didn't say that, after they're sitting there with their eyes bugged out, you know, looking at all of the happening and they're going to laugh. Yeah. They have just experienced incoming disease. Now these things have become moldy. It had to be, it had to be for those disciples to be seeing all of this in quick succession and we're not done yet. There are three or four more miracles to happen just like this in the next couple of days. And Jesus is demonstrating to them his absolute power, his control. Now there's a lot, again, there's a lot going on here. Jesus is starting the training of the 12. Do you think that, you know, the 12 have caught on to what is happening with the religious leaders rejecting Jesus? And Jesus is now using all of these miracles to, in a sense, bolster their confidence in him, their faith in him so that it is not shaken by what the religious leaders have done. And I think there is a sense in which all of this is designed to teach the disciples and to strengthen them in their faith. And just imagine seeing Jesus very calmly still the waters in the boat and then just as calmly deal with this raging madman who's attacking them. I mean, coming at them and just as calmly, Jesus takes care of that situation. Incredible power. Okay. Any other questions before we? This actually is more Gentile territory, decapillus. It's on the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is, do we have a map again to him very close? You might be thinking that it's the name of the barracks. Yes. Well, that may be, but this is Gentile territory, the decapillus ten cities is basically Gentile area. Jesus will minister some here, but not very much. And the fact many exporters say the fact that these people had pigs would indicate there were Gentiles. That was why I would wonder why would Jews be, yeah, right. I think this is primarily Gentile territory. Well, notice what does happen while they may not want to be paid for them. They certainly don't want to lose anything more. And they respond with their own kind of fear. Look at verse 14, those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons sitting there dressed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. Okay, immediately this guy whom they all would recognize, they all would know who this guy was. And all of a sudden he has now fully clothed and in his right mind. And they're thinking, what has happened here? Verse 16, those who had seen it told the people what had happened to the demon possessed man and told about the pigs as well. And then look at the response of the people in verse 17, then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region. How does that strike you? Sad? Pretty bad off. What about their value system? Didn't want to lose any more pigs. They had just gained a productive citizen of their community, a man who used to be a raving lunatic demon possessed, scaring and frightening every child within hearing distance of the tombs and adults. They got him back, but they lost their pigs. That says something, doesn't it? Says something about the value system of these people who do not value the restoration of the image of God in man, but are concerned about losing money in their pigs. But you know that kind of value system being twisted around shouldn't surprise us too much because it's exactly the thing many of us struggle with. Same kind of value system. What's more important to us? Loss of a stock portfolio, loss of retirement, loss of whatever, or the salvation of one soul. What's more important? Our value system gets twisted around sometimes too. John, you got a question? You look like you had a question. I don't think they do unless reports have come about his miracles. He hasn't ministered in this area unless reports have filtered into this area. There were people coming from decapillus over into Galilee, but whether or not these people knew who he was, it's hard to tell. And he's just gotten off the boat. One of the people didn't know who that was. They are terrified of his power, obviously. Both his power to cast out a demon and his power to or they hold him responsible for the pigs, although he is not directly responsible for that. Pardon me? After the rejection of the Pharisees, it's difficult to say within days, I would think, because Jesus immediately after the rejection of the Pharisees in chapter 12 gives the parables of the kingdom and then it says that evening they got into the boat. So it's the next day. It's within a couple days, two or three days, I would think. And so the moment that he gets into the very agenda, and I would think that they would get into the boat. Yeah. And Jesus will do this several more times where he will leave to go into Gentile territory and reach out to Gentiles. So this is not the only time he will do that. Notice the end of the story in verse 18, as Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon possessed begged to go with him. In other words, I want to be like these guys who are with you. I want to be one of your followers. I want to be a disciple. I want to go with you. I mean, look at what you've done for me. I want to go with you. Very interesting response in the part of Jesus. Jesus did not let him. But said, go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you. So the man went away and began to tell him to end the decapillus how much Jesus had done for him and all the people were amazed. You see, not everybody is called to be one who travels around Galilee with Jesus. Not everyone is called to be that kind of disciple. Jesus wants some people to stay home and to be testimonies where they are. Where would this man have the greatest impact over in Galilee? No. In his home area where he's known and people would see the radical change in his life. And so God wants some people to go and God wants some people to stay. And in this case, this man is supposed to stay. And he's supposed to stay and have a testimony in his own home area which he does. He's faithful to do that. Thinking? I'm not sure if it's the first recorded time or not. I'd have to look back and compare what all's happened up to this point. Certainly, there have been many times when Jesus has told people not to say anything and we're going to see that again, not tonight, but probably next week in one of the very next stories. Here's part of what I think is going on. Jesus tells this man to go because these people have not heard of him yet to a great degree. And there's no possibility of a popular uprising to make him king in this area. They just need to know of Jesus. In Israel, Jesus is trying to avoid a popular uprising to thrust him into overthrowing the Romans. And that's not the same situation here. So I think there's a different motivation here and the reason why Jesus gives this man permission to tell everybody and others back in Israel, he'll say, keep this quiet. There's a different reason for that, I think. Very insightful, you would point that out. Yes, you're right, Kishti. It does say a lot about the compassion of Jesus that he would leave the masses of people. I mean, people were crowding into him. And as soon as he gets back on the other side, they'll do it again. But he goes across ministers to this one man, and then he'll go back to Galilee. And this one man has that kind of significance in Jesus' eyes. That is very interesting. Okay, we got to stop at a clock. Let's stop. Let's pray together.