Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him.Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended at him.Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended in him.
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… that such mighty works are performed by his hands? Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us? And so they were offended at him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house. Now he could do no mighty work there. except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. Then he went about the villages in a circuit teaching. I want to show you four characteristics of unbelief. Four characteristics of unbelief as seen in this town of Nazareth. First, unbelief respects his wisdom. They note in the first two verses that this guy could teach really well. He began to teach, verse 2, in the synagogue. Many hearing him were astonished. Unbelief at first seems noble, virtuous. it will acknowledge that Jesus Christ is indeed a powerful communicator an ethical teacher taught many wise things had a lot of good things to say and I just want you to note again we have been making note of this in the gospel of Mark that it makes note that he is teaching it uses the word teach in verse 2 and then at the end of verse 6, teaching. And that is because that's what he does most. In all the ministry of Jesus, of all the things that he does, he is primarily not a healer, …
… Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James? Joseph, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us? And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relative and his own people. He could not do miracles there except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. This is the word of God for you, the people of God. Thanks be to God. Take a moment, think about your hometown. Who is a hometown hero or local celebrity? Do you like them? Are you proud that they represent your city? I grew up in Long Beach, California, and I'm sure there are more celebrities from the LBC, but what comes to mind for me is the smooth reggae rock sounds of Sublime in the legendary hip-hop lyrics of Snoop Dogg and Warren G. …
… Watch, watch, this is, it happened to Jesus. Look, put up on the screen Mark 6, verse three. Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, and Hosesus, and Judasus, and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us? So they were offended at him. they see in him like he's just a common guy this is the one that can walk on water this is the one that can turn water into wine this is the one that can feed 5 000 this is the one that can heal the blind the deaf the mute and the dead and you're treating him like he's an ordinary guy stop treating your spouse like they're normal that is the one that god brought to you that is the one that God answered your prayers through. You ought to thank God for them, respect them, honor them. Come on, clap a little bit louder today. And you be grateful for them. You ought to look at them and say, thank you for putting up with me. …
… He doing his Jesus thing. Verse 3. Here's what the crowd starts saying. Is not this the carpenter? Look at how they try to debase him. bring him down to size. Ain't he just the son of Mary? Not the son of God, son of Mary. And the brother James and Joseph and Judas and Simon and are not his sisters here with us? And they took offense at him. They took offense at Jesus. Then Jesus said to them, prophets are not without honor except in their hometown among their own kin and in their own house. Remix, if you're a prophet, the place you will be least honored is around the people that know you best. Because just like a faucet in a fountain, the water around, whatever is most around where the water's coming out, it doesn't get wet. Did you hear what I said? The water comes up and it goes out. And everything right around the spigot, whatever it is, doesn't get wet. And that explains why you can help everybody else's children except yours. …
… And such miracles as these performed by his hands. Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joseph, and Judas, and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us? They took offense at Him. This is just the carpenter. This is the son of Mary. Joseph's not mentioned, as they said, no doubt had died. We know His brothers. We know His sisters. They took offense at the notion that He was claiming to be God, even though they saw the miracles. They said that. Where did He get the power to do these miracles? And Jesus responded in verse 4 with a famous line, "'A prophet is not without honor except in his own hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.'" How strange that is, that they who had lived with Him for thirty years thought He had lost his mind, couldn't see that he was divine. Now if you go back to Mark 3. And verse 31. We jump ahead in the story a little bit to pick up the family. …