Mark 6:1-6 finishes off this section with the limits of Jesus’ human popularity by showing another hindrance when popularity is coupled with familiarity. These two collided in Jesus’ home town of Nazareth, as what had been heard about Him crashed head long into what the people from His home town had believed about Him for 30 years.
Charles Darwin once said that belief was “the most complete of all distinctions between man and the lower animals.” Though I disagree with Darwinism I would say that his observation, suggests that when a person exhibits a “lack of faith or unbelief” it puts them on a lower level then the lower part of creation.
One of the common denominators in those who received a touch from Jesus is that they approached Him in brokenness and humility. The other side of the coin is seen in these verse’s where we see a community that had grew up with Jesus and had every reason to trust Him and yet choice to not do so.
When you consider most of the unbelieving world’s view of Jesus, they are fine with Him being a great teacher, they rather like the fact that He turned against the religious establishment and had no interest in politics. They like that He identified with the common person, was compassionate to the poor and down trodden. Really there are only two things that most of the world will not ever agree with it and find offensive when it comes to Jesus: His virgin birth and His resurrection!
Make Him a good man, a moral man, or any other kind of virtue but don’t make Him the Son of God! Why? Because a Lord and Savior makes us in need of being saved!