We hardly know anything about the first 30 years of Jesus' life, beside the details of his birth and that one brief episode when Mary and Joseph lost him in Jerusalem as a young boy. Other than that, it's a silent mystery. Now suddenly, in our Gospel reading for this Sunday, Jesus embarks on what would eventually turn out to be a three year public mission of healing, preaching, teaching, and finally culminating with his brutal crucifixion on Calvary.
Ask yourself, why does Jesus begin in the "the region of Zebulun and Naphtali." Why are the first words ever recorded out of his mouth are "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand"? And ask yourself, why now does he begin to call the first men who would eventually make up his inner circle of the Twelve Apostles? Why twelve? When we understand the historical context, it makes nothing but beautiful sense.
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