Today, Dis Word Don Happen

Dem don roll di scroll. Di attendant collect am back. Jesus sit down. And every eye for di room dey look am. Nobody move. Nobody even breathe. Wetin e go talk?

Na Sabbath day for Nazareth. Di small village for hill where Jesus grow up, where people remember am as di carpenter, Joseph son. But di news don spread all over Galilee: e don dey teach for synagogues, and people dey wonder. Now e don come home. As e dey always do, Luke talk, e go synagogue for Sabbath day. Di same simple room. Di same benches. Di same neighbours, di same old men wey watch am as e dey grow. And e stand up to read.

Di attendant give am di scroll of di prophet Isaiah. Jesus open am, and e find di place. Isaiah write dis words for God people for time of ruin and exile, when dem feel say dem poor, dem broken, and dem be captives. Jesus read am out. Di Spirit of di Lord dey on top me, because e don anoint me to preach good news to di poor; e don send me to heal people wey dia heart don break, to announce freedom for di captives, and to make blind people see again, to free di people wey dem don crush, to announce di year wey di Lord go show im favour.

Then e roll di scroll, give am back to di attendant, and e sit down. For dat kind synagogue, teacher dey sit down to teach. So everybody dey wait. Every eye for di synagogue fix on top am. And Jesus talk: today, dis scripture don happen as una dey hear am. No be one day. No be sometime for future. Today. Di One wey Isaiah talk about, di One wey God anoint with im Spirit to bring good news to di poor and freedom to di captives, dey sit down for dia front. Na di same boy wey dem watch as e dey grow.

For di beginning, di people talk well about am, and dem wonder at di gracious words wey dey come from im mouth. No be Joseph son be dis? dem ask. But as Jesus continue, di mood change, and before di day end, dem turn against am. Dia own hometown boy, wey dey claim say e be di One wey God promise, dat one too much for dem. But still, di promise stand. Thirty years before, angels don tell shepherds about good news of great joy. Now di baby don grow, and e explain wetin dat good news be: for di poor, for people wey dia heart don break, for di captive, for di blind, and for di people wey dem don crush.

We get one writing from one synagogue for Jerusalem from around di time of Jesus. Dem find am for nineteen thirteen, and dem dey call am di Theodotus inscription. E talk say dem build di synagogue for di reading of di Law and for di teaching of di commandments. Na exactly wetin Jesus dey do for Nazareth be dat: to read Scripture out, and then to teach.

Today, Dis Word Don Happen. You go find am for Luke chapter four, verse sixteen to twenty-one. For Christmas, we dey celebrate one baby. Here, di Jesus wey don grow tell us wetin dat baby come do. So see one question wey you go carry dey go. Who around you dey poor, whose heart don break, or who dey stuck, and how you fit bring some of di good news of Jesus give dem today?