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he tries it in Athens but he's not successful
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because nobodypays any attention to him in Athens.
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That's a university town after all,
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they know better, right?
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This theme of the prophets being rejected and
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it's the rejection of the message by the Jews that causes the message
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then to be taken to the Gentiles.
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That will play out over and over again, and here again you get it here.
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So Luke has transposed the story about Jesus preaching in Nazareth
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from where he finds it in Mark,
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which is later in Jesus' ministry,
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and he puts it at the beginning of Jesus' ministry,