We are currently studying Luk 4:31 -37 So Jesus went down to Capernaum, for the first century Jew this was a loaded statement. In current Gauteng, South Africa it meant Jesus (volunterily) went down to Hillbrow. The whole Gallilea was epidemically stricken with poverty, but not the poverty of finding a different work kind of poverty, the poverty that there was no solution for. There were different classes, the rich and elite, the noble people were the Romans, they owned all the land in the area. Then the Jews had to lease the land from them to do farming on. The money they made from the leasing the ground to do farming on went mostly for the Roman Taxes, then for Jewish temple taxes then lastly they had to eat from their farms. In modern day archaeological sites, no shops have been discovered in Capernaum, illustrating that there were no excess to sell, they literaly lived from the hand to the mouth.
