Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

Meditations of the Gospel of Mark

August 21, 2020

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family.”

Mark 6:4

Read: Mark 6:1-6

In chapter three of Mark, we learned that Jesus’ family was struggling to make sense of his ministry. In today’s reading, we learn that most of Jesus’ hometown still sees Jesus as the carpenter’s son, not the Messiah. I am glad Mark gives us the names of some of Jesus’ siblings, especially James, because it prepares us for the rest of the story. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15:7 that after his resurrection, Jesus appeared to James. We learn in the Book of Acts that James becomes a leader of the church and he writes the Book of James, the 20^th book in the New Testament.

Jesus has taught us about planting seeds and giving the seed time to grow. James is an example of Jesus’ teaching in Mark 4:8, “Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they sprouted, grew, and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”

My Takeaway: The end of today’s passage tells us Jesus couldn’t do any miracles in his hometown except to place his hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed at their unbelief! Is Jesus amazed at my faith, or my unbelief? How about you?

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

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