Mark 6:1-6
Teaching at Nazareth
1 Jesus left there and came to His hometown [Nazareth]; and His disciples followed Him.(A)
2 When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and many who listened to Him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things [this knowledge and spiritual insight]? What is this wisdom [this confident understanding of the Scripture] that has been given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?
3 Is this not the carpenter, (a)the son of Mary, and the brother of (b)James and Joses and (c)Judas and Simon? Are His sisters not here with us?” And they were [deeply] offended by Him [and their disapproval blinded them to the fact that He was anointed by God as the Messiah].
4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor (respect) except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”
5 And He could not do a miracle there at all [because of their unbelief] except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.
6 He wondered at their unbelief.
And He was going around in the villages teaching.
And He was going around in the villages teaching.
Footnotes:
a.
Mark 6:3: This question was intended as an insult because a Jewish man was never referred to as his mother’s son even if she was a widow.
b.
Mark 6:3: James later became a leader in the Jerusalem church and authored the epistle of James.
c.
Mark 6:3: Heb Judah, authored the epistle of Jude.