A light in Galilee
The Old Testament
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
Isaiah 9:2
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In the New Testament
“the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”
Matthew 4:16
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The land of Zebulun and Naphtali, 'Galilee of the nations', once brought low, will be honoured. The people that walked in darkness see a great light.
Galilee was the first region to be carried off by Assyria (2 Kings 15:29) and had a mixed population; Jerusalem looked down on it ('out of Galilee ariseth no prophet', John 7:52). That is exactly where Jesus begins his work, in Capernaum by the lake.