How God Shines Light to People in Darkness
Matthew 4:12-17
The gospel call to repentance gives light to people in darkness.
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Published October 1st, 2019
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When he came to Galilee, Jesus chose to live in Capernaum to fulfill prophecy by giving light to people in his preaching of repentance .
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Matthew 4:12-17
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Now when he heard that n John had been arrested,
o he withdrew into Galilee.
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And leaving p Nazareth
he went and lived in q Capernaum by r the sea, in the territory of s Zebulun and Naphtali,
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t so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
u “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
v the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light,
and for those dwelling in the region and w shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”
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x From that time Jesus began to preach, saying,
z “Repent,
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
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When Jesus moved to Capernaum to give light to those in the darkness of death, he preached a message of repentance because the kingdom of heaven was near .
12a-b has a Locative relationship with 13-17 because Galilee is the larger area within which Nazareth and Capernaum are located. I could have chosen Series to relate 12 to 13-17, but since Matthew quotes Isaiah and Jesus' preaching, his focus is on what Jesus did after he entered Galilee, and so 13-17 is more important than 12 (even more so than a Progression relationship would show).
13-16 has a Temporal relationship with 17 because of the prepositional phrase "from that time" (17a). 13-16 explain what Jesus did and why , and then 17 reveals what Jesus preached from the time he moved to Capernaum. The sermon itself takes precedence over mere description of the location or time of its being preached (even though the prophecy in 16 is important). Another possibility is Inference or Action-Result , which might be even better.
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