A Couple of Things.......

I think it is interesting to pick up little known facts from the New Testament.  So here are a couple of things that I would guess most people don't know.  That's no reflection on you because you may know these. 

The first is that Jesus walked on the earth for 40 days after His resurrection.  This is only recorded in one place, Acts chapter one.  Acts begins:

"The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit, had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God."

Jesus was killed, crucified, on Friday, rose from the dead on Sunday, stayed on the earth for 40 more days, then ascended to heaven as recorded at the end of Luke and the beginning of Acts.

I would suggest to you that most people are not familiar with this timetable and are not aware that Jesus spent 40 days showing Himself arisen to so many people.

A second fact that most people would not know is that Jesus, while growing up in Nazareth, moved His hometown to Capernaum when it was time to start preaching.  This is only recorded, at least in clear fashion, in Matthew chapter 4:

"Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, He departed to Galilee.  And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulon and Naphtali...."

Nazareth was not a good place for Him to teach, because they knew Him as a hometown boy, a carpenter, and just couldn't believe.  But Jesus continued to live in Capernaum when He wasn't traveling about and teaching.

Thanks for reading.  Have a great week!