Mark 6:1-2 records Jesus’ trip to his home town. To the people of this little town of Nazareth Jesus was at best an unimportant carpenter whose parents didn’t have a good reputation. In their small mindedness they just couldn’t get beyond this and discounted all the works others were attributing to Him. These folks had been His neighbors, they had sat next to Him at the synagogue, had Him build them something. A carpenter was a respected craftsman in that day, but nobody expected a carpenter to do miracles or teach profound truths in the synagogue. Where did He get all this power and wisdom?
And why didn’t the rest of His family possess this same power and wisdom? Even more, why did His brothers and sisters not believe in Him? There is that old maxim that says, “Familiarity breeds contempt”, but the contempt shown by Jesus’ fellow citizens says nothing about Him and everything about them. They couldn’t get beyond what their own prejudices led them to believe. The Greek word “offended” is where we get our English word scandalize, and as hard as it is for us to understand, Jesus, instead of being a great source of community pride, was a source of embarrassment as they viewed Him as a scandal. They did what so many still do today, “They couldn’t explain Him, so they rejected Him.” They look with eyes that didn’t see anything special about Jesus.
When it comes to Jesus there are only two possibilities:
•You are like these villagers who see nothing amazing about the Son of God!
•You see nothing about Jesus that ISN’T AMAZING!
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