It’s confusing how he gets his start, Jesus. He’s in Nazareth talking about what he did in Capernaum — the Nazarenes will be expecting the same. This is in vv. 16-23. Only he hasn’t yet been to Capernaum. He doesn’t get there until verse 31. There he does do what they, the Nazarenes, were expecting or will be expecting when he gets there because I think Luke has got his paragraphs out of order. Or the printers didn’t set it up right.
But
whatever the order in time, Jesus just keeps going. He casts out demons, he rebukes
fevers, he lays on hands and heals and heals and heals. He fills Peter’s nets
with fish, for all the good it will do him, for the moment he, Peter, gets his
boat to land and climbs out he follows, leaving everything behind. John
and James, too: they leave all the fish everything behind and follow.
They’re all leaving everything
behind. Levi is next — though Luke gets his paragraphs out of order again:
first, Levi leaves and follows; then, he gives a big banquet at the house he’s already (though just) left.
But my point is, that was what they
were doing then, leaving everything behind. Nobody does that anymore.
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