{"id":2952,"date":"2014-01-01T05:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:01:24","slug":"matthew-1354-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2952","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 13:54-58"},"content":{"rendered":"

54\u00a0When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, \u201cWhere did this\u00a0Man\u00a0get this wisdom and\u00a0these\u00a0mighty works?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

55 Is this not the carpenter\u2019s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

56\u00a0And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this\u00a0Man\u00a0get all these things?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

57\u00a0So they were offended at Him.\u00a0But Jesus said to them,\u00a0\u201cA prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

58\u00a0Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

His own country (v.54) \u2014 Nazareth \u2014 This is probably a later visit than the one recorded in Luke 4:16-29 and is His last recorded visit to the town.<\/h3>\n

brothers (v.55) \u2014 half-brothers, sons of Mary and Joseph<\/h3>\n

James (v.55) \u2014 Not the apostle, but a leader in the Acts church and the writer of the New Testament book<\/h3>\n

Judas (v.55) \u2014 the writer of the book of Jude<\/h3>\n

0ffended (v.57) = lit. “made to stumble”<\/h3>\n

Rabbinical teaching consisted of the transmission of traditional interpretations, and so the crowd questioned His source of knowledge. They weighed both His words and works. They confessed that such knowledge could not be traced to His father, who would have been expected to teach the law to his son (Deuteronomy 6:7). They would have been aware that none of the others brought up in the same home and under the tutelage of the same father could display such knowledge or do such works. Because Christ had not been taught by an accredited teacher, the crowd discounted His words. In fact, “they took offense at Him” (Mark 6:3<\/span><\/a>). \u2014 Pentecost, page 227.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

54\u00a0When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, \u201cWhere did this\u00a0Man\u00a0get this wisdom and\u00a0these\u00a0mighty works? 55 Is this not the carpenter\u2019s son? Is not His mother called … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}