{Dwelt in Capernaum} (Kat(9369)k(8873)en eis Kapharnaoum). He went
first to Nazareth, his old home, but was rejected there ( Lu
4:16-31 ). In Capernaum (probably the modern Tell H(966d)) Jesus
was in a large town, one of the centres of Galilean political and
commercial life, a fishing mart, where many Gentiles came. Here
the message of the kingdom would have a better chance than in
Jerusalem with its ecclesiastical prejudices or in Nazareth with
its local jealousies. So Jesus "made his home" (kat(9369)k(8873)en)
here.