Joyful Moments in Christ

1. Accept — To say yes to something or agree to it.
2. Again — One more time; once more.
3. Always — At all times; every time.
4. Amazed — Feeling very surprised and filled with wonder.
5. Angry — Feeling mad or upset about something.
6. Announce — To tell people something important.
7. Anywhere — In or at any place at all.
8. Area Around Galilee — The regions and towns near the main area of Galilee.
9. Began — Past tense of begin; started to do something.
10. Begin — To start something.
11. Blind — A person who cannot see.
12. Book of Isaiah — A part of the Bible that holds the words of the prophet Isaiah.
13. Built — Made by putting parts together, like a house or a town.
14. Chosen — Picked or selected.
15. Close — To shut something, like a door.
16. Closely — Looking very carefully at something or someone.
17. Come — To arrive at a place.
18. Coming True — Happening now as it was promised long ago.
19. Country — An area of land or region.
20. Crowd — A large group of people in one place.
21. Doctor — A person who helps sick people get well.
22. During — At the same time something happens.
23. Edge — The outside line or border of something.
24. Elijah — A famous prophet of God who could make it rain and was sent to help a widow who had no food.
25. Elisha — A prophet who helped people and lived after the prophet Elijah.
26. Everyone — All people.
27. Food — Something you eat to live and grow.
28. Force — Using power to make someone do what you want.
29. Found — Discovered or saw where someone or something was.
30. Free — Not held down, trapped, or controlled.
31. Gave It Back — Returned something to the person who had given it.
32. Given — Something handed or shared with someone.
33. Goes — Travels or moves to a place.
34. Good News — The message about God’s love and how he saves people through Jesus.
35. Got Up — Stood up from sitting or lying down.
36. Grew Up — Got bigger or older.
37. Heal — To make a sick person healthy again.
38. Heard — Listened to a sound or words.
39. Heard About — To have listened to news or stories about something.
40. Helper — A person who assists or works for someone else.
41. Hill — A small mountain or high place on the land.
42. Hometown — The town where a person was born or grew up.
43. Joseph — The man who cared for Jesus like a father.
44. Just Now — Only a very short time ago.
45. Kindness — Being nice and gentle to people.
46. Know — To understand or be sure about something.
47. Leprosy — A very bad skin disease that hurts the body.
48. Living — Being alive.
49. Lord — A name showing respect for God.
50. Many — A large number of people or things.
51. Middle — The center part of something.
52. None — Not a single person or thing; zero.
53. Old — Having lived or been used for a long time.
54. Open — Not closed; able to be seen or entered.
55. Out of Town — To be outside the limits of the town.
56. People — A group of men, women, or children.
57. Place — A space or area where something happens.
58. Possible — Something that can be done.
59. Power — Strength or ability to do something.
60. Praise — To say good things about someone.
61. Prisoner — A person who is not free and is kept by others.
62. Prophet — A person chosen by God to speak for him.
63. Rain — Water falling from the sky.
64. Reading — To look at words and say them aloud or understand them.
65. Ready — Prepared for what will happen next.
66. Sabbath Day — The special day of rest for Jewish people (Saturday).
67. Said — Told someone something.
68. Sat Down — To lower your body onto a chair or the ground.
69. Saying — A wise or common phrase that people often repeat.
70. See — To use your eyes to look at something.
71. Sent — Told someone to go somewhere to do something.
72. Sent Only — Only took or sent someone to one specific place.
73. Show — To let someone see something.
74. Speak — To use your voice to say words.
75. Spirit — A being that you cannot see, like God’s Spirit.
76. Spread — To move to more people or places.
77. Stood Up — To rise from sitting or lying down.
78. Story — A tale or news about something that happened.
79. Synagogue — A place where Jewish people meet to pray and learn about God.
80. Teach — To help people learn something.
81. Tell — To give information with words.
82. The Fact Is — A phrase that means “the truth is” or “the reality is.”
83. Thing — An object, action, or idea.
84. Throw — To send something through the air with your hand.
85. Time — A point in the past or future; how we measure things like hours or days.
86. Took — Picked up or held something and moved it.
87. Town — A place where people live, smaller than a city.
88. Travel — To go from one place to another.
89. Treated Badly — To be hurt, abused, or mistreated by others.
90. Truth — Something that is real; a fact.
91. Very — Used to show that something is stronger or bigger in amount.
92. Walked Through — Moved across or passed by the middle of an area.
93. Watch — To look carefully and pay attention.
94. Went Away — Left and went to another place.
95. Went Back — Returned to where you were before.
96. Whole — All of something; complete.
97. Widow — A woman whose husband has died.
98. Wonderful — Very good, special, or exciting.
99. Words — A group of sounds or letters that has meaning.
100. Work — A job or task someone does.
101. Written — Words put on paper or another surface.
102. Year — 12 months or 365 days.

1. Anger — A strong feeling of being upset or mad.
2. Announce — To tell people something important.
3. Begin — To start something.
4. Blind — A person who cannot see.
5. Bring — To take something to a place or person.
6. Built — Made by putting parts together, like a house or a town.
7. Captives — People who are trapped and not free.
8. Chose — Picked one person or thing instead of another.
9. Dreaded Skin Disease — A bad sickness of the skin, often feared in Bible times.
10. Doctor — A person who helps sick people get well.
11. Drag — To pull someone or something along the ground.
12. Elijah — A prophet from the Old Testament sent by God.
13. Eloquent — Speaking in a clear and beautiful way.
14. Famine — A time when there is not enough food for people to eat.
15. Filled — To be made full of something, like a feeling or food.
16. Fix — To look at something carefully without turning away.
17. Galilee — A place in Israel where Jesus lived and taught.
18. Good News — The message about God’s love and how he saves people through Jesus.
19. Handed — Gave something to another person.
20. Heal — To make a sick person healthy again.
21. Hill — A small mountain or high place on the land.
22. Holy Spirit — God’s Spirit who helps and teaches people.
23. Hometown — The town where a person was born or grew up.
24. Impressed — To feel happy and amazed by something good.
25. Isaiah — A prophet in the Bible who spoke God’s words.
26. Land — A country or area of ground.
27. Liberty — Freedom to be free and not trapped.
28. Marvel — To feel amazed or surprised.
29. Nazareth — The town where Jesus grew up.
30. News — New information that people talk about.
31. Oppressed — People who are treated badly and not free.
32. Power — Strength or ability to do something.
33. Praise — To say good things about someone.
34. Proclaim — To say something loudly and clearly for others to hear.
35. Prophet — A person chosen by God to speak for him.
36. Proverb — A short, wise saying.
37. Rain — Water falling from the sky.
38. Recovery — Getting better after being sick or hurt.
39. Roll — To turn something over and over, like a scroll.
40. Rose Up — Stood up quickly.
41. Sabbath — A special day of rest and worship.
42. Save — To help someone and keep them safe from danger.
43. Scroll — A long piece of paper or animal skin with writing on it.
44. Scriptures — Holy writings from God, like the Bible.
45. Set Free — To let someone go who was in trouble or danger.
46. Sight — The ability to see.
47. Spirit of the Lord — God’s Spirit, who gives people power and help.
48. Spread — To move to more people or places.
49. Stood Up — To rise from sitting or lying down.
50. Suffer — To feel pain or sadness.
51. Synagogue — A place where Jewish people meet to pray and learn about God.
52. Taught — Helped someone learn something.
53. Territory — A large area of land.
54. Throw — To send something through the air with your hand.
55. Unroll — To open something that was rolled up.
56. Welcome — To be kind and friendly to someone new.
57. Widow — A woman whose husband has died.
58. Work — A job or task someone does.

Jesus Begins His Work in Galilee
14 Jesus went back to Galilee with the power of the Spirit.
Stories about him spread all over the area around Galilee.
15 He began to teach in the synagogues, and everyone praised him.
Jesus Goes to His Hometown
16 Jesus traveled to Nazareth, the town where he grew up.
On the Sabbath day he went to the synagogue as he always did.
He stood up to read.
17 The book of Isaiah the prophet was given to him.
He opened the book and found the place where this is written:
18-19 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me.
He has chosen me to tell good news to the poor.
He sent me to tell prisoners that they are free and to tell the blind that they can see again.
He sent me to free those who have been treated badly and to announce that the time has come for the Lord to show his kindness.”
20-21 Jesus closed the book, gave it back to the helper, and sat down.
As everyone in the synagogue watched him closely, he began to speak to them.
He said, “While you heard me reading these words just now, they were coming true!”
22 Everyone there said good things about Jesus.
They were amazed to hear him speak such wonderful words.
They said, “How is this possible? Isn’t he Joseph’s son?”
23 Jesus said to them,
“I know you will tell me the old saying: ‘Doctor, heal yourself.’
You want to say, ‘We heard about the things you did in Capernaum.
Do those same things here in your own hometown!’”
24 Then he said, “The truth is, a prophet is not accepted in his own hometown.
25-26 “During the time of Elijah it did not rain in Israel for three and a half years.
There was no food anywhere in the whole country.
There were many widows in Israel during that time.
But the fact is, Elijah was sent to none of those widows in Israel.
He was sent only to a widow in Zarephath, a town in Sidon.
27 “And there were many people with leprosy living in Israel during the time of the prophet Elisha.
But none of them were healed; the only one was Naaman.
And he was from the country of Syria, not Israel.”
28 When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were very angry.
29 They got up and forced Jesus to go out of town.
Their town was built on a hill.
They took Jesus to the edge of the hill to throw him off.
30 But he walked through the middle of the crowd and went away.

Luke 4:14-30 (ERV)

Jesus Begins His Work in Galilee
14 Then Jesus returned to Galilee, and the power of the Holy Spirit was with him. The news about him spread throughout all that territory.
15 He taught in the synagogues and was praised by everyone.
Jesus Is Rejected at Nazareth
16 Then Jesus went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went as usual to the synagogue. He stood up to read the Scriptures
17 and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it is written,
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed
19 and announce that the time has come when the Lord will save his people.”
20 Jesus rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. All the people in the synagogue had their eyes fixed on him,
21 as he said to them, “This passage of scripture has come true today, as you heard it being read.”
22 They were all well impressed with him and marveled at the eloquent words that he spoke. They said, “Isn’t he the son of Joseph?”
23 He said to them, “I am sure that you will quote this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, heal yourself.’ You will also tell me to do here in my hometown the same things you heard were done in Capernaum.
24 I tell you this,” Jesus added, “prophets are never welcomed in their hometown.
25 Listen to me: it is true that there were many widows in Israel during the time of Elijah, when there was no rain for three and a half years and a severe famine spread throughout the whole land.
26 Yet Elijah was not sent to anyone in Israel, but only to a widow living in Zarephath in the territory of Sidon. 27 And there were many people suffering from a dreaded skin disease who lived in Israel during the time of the prophet Elisha; yet not one of them was healed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”
28 When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were filled with anger.
29 They rose up, dragged Jesus out of town, and took him to the top of the hill on which their town was built. They meant to throw him over the cliff,
30 but he walked through the middle of the crowd and went his way.

Luke 4:14-30 (GNT)