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His critics called him “a Galilean.”
The word means very little to us. But in the time of Jesus, it communicated volumes.
Once your enemies could establish you as “a Galilean,” any number of other insults were available and could be unleashed in your direction without fear of contradiction.
Galileans were people who lived in Palestine, separate from the greater favor of God, with those who dwelt in Jerusalem.
They were outsiders.
They were lesser.
They were cursed by birth, to be relegated to a second-place position in all aspects of life.
After all, the Pharisees made it clear that “no prophet could come from Galilee,” and since Galilee was devoid of prophets, Galilee had to submit to other, more spiritual regions for its faith and hope.
Yes, once the cynics were able to call Jesus a Galilean, soon popping from their lips was the word “ignorant.”
- He didn’t know his letters.
- He didn’t know how to properly clean a cup before drinking.
- Coming from Galilee, it was well-known that he was a sinner.
- And if he was able to free people of their oppression, it was only because he was in cahoots with the devil himself.
- Following the reputation of all Galileans, he was “a drunkard, a glutton and a friend of the outcast.”
Shouldered upon him was the burden of generations of bigotry, which still exists to this day as the Jews and Palestinians struggle for a piece of land that is really not much bigger than the state of New Jersey.
We probably find this practice of relegating certain virtues or vices to a particular region to be beneath our intellectual standard.
Yet if someone tells us they’re from the state of Texas, we envision cowboy hats, guns, bigotry, cow-roping, rodeos and backward politics.
A Californian is burdened with the notion that he’s from the Left Coast, is a hippie, smokes marijuana in church (if he ever goes there) and advocates free love.
Florida is for old people, and New York is for crime and gangsters.
We’re often very proud of the fact that we do not follow much of the superstition of those “Biblical fellows” we read about from so many centuries ago.
But because a group of bigoted, religious people were able to oppress Jesus of Nazareth by calling him a Galilean and assigning him all the foibles attributed to such a creature, rather than them being illuminated by the light of the world, they chose to snuff it out.
Even today we have a religious system which is intent on proving that Jesus was Jewish, when the Jewish people were convinced he was Palestinian.
Amazing, don’t you think?
He was right:
“Foxes have holes, but the Son of Man truly does have no place to lay his head.”
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