The people at Nazareth were offended at Him, when, after His baptism, He began to go about the country healing the sick, and teaching the people about God; and they said, scornfully, "Is not this the Carpenter?"
But God gives us the whole history of those eighteen quiet years in one sentence—
"This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased!"
When John saw Jesus coming to him to be baptized, he had exclaimed,—
"Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!"
And two of his disciples, hearing him speak, turned and followed Jesus.
May we hear those blessed words, and follow Him too!
[VI. "Nazareth where He was brought up"]
When the Lord Jesus was on earth, He lived among men for thirty-three and a half years.
We have in the New Testament only little glimpses of His life during the first thirty years.