Matthew 13:53-58
<p>Jul 15, 2011 05:29 AM- <b>All done</b>
 
<a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/13-53.htm" ><b>53</b></a>And it came to pass, <i>that</i> when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. 
 
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</p>
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<p>Wesley's Notes</p>
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<li>1�3�:�5�3� �H�e� �d�e�p�a�r�t�e�d� �t�h�e�n�c�e� �-� �H�e� �c�r�o�s�s�e�d� �t�h�e� �l�a�k�e� �f�r�o�m� �C�a�p�e�r�n�a�u�m�:� �a�n�d� �c�a�m�e� � �o�n�c�e� �m�o�r�e� �i�n�t�o� �h�i�s� �o�w�n� �c�o�u�n�t�r�y� �-� �N�a�z�a�r�e�t�h�:� �b�u�t� �w�i�t�h� �n�o� �b�e�t�t�e�r� �s�u�c�c�e�s�s� � �t�h�a�n� �h�e� �h�a�d� �h�a�d� �t�h�e�r�e� �b�e�f�o�r�e�.</li>
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<p>Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</p>
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<li>H�e� �d�i�d� �n�o�t� �m�a�n�y� �m�i�g�h�t�y� �w�o�r�k�s� �t�h�e�r�e�,� �b�e�c�a�u�s�e� �o�f� �t�h�e�i�r� �u�n�b�e�l�i�e�f�.� �U�n�b�e�l�i�e�f� � �i�s� �t�h�e� �g�r�e�a�t� �h�i�n�d�e�r�a�n�c�e� �t�o� �C�h�r�i�s�t�'�s� �f�a�v�o�u�r�s�.� �L�e�t� �u�s� �k�e�e�p� �f�a�i�t�h�f�u�l� �t�o� �h�i�m� � �a�s� �t�h�e� �S�a�v�i�o�u�r� �w�h�o� �h�a�s� �m�a�d�e� �o�u�r� �p�e�a�c�e� �w�i�t�h� �G�o�d�.</li>
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<a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/13-54.htm" ><b>5</b><b>4</b></a><b> </b><b>And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this</b><b> </b><i><b>man</b></i><b> </b><b>this wisdom, and</b><b> </b><i><b>these</b></i><b> </b><b>mighty works?</b>
 
<a href="http://clarke.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Clarke's Commentary on the Bible</a></p>
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<li>They were astonished - It appears, hence, that our blessed Lord had lived in obscurity all the time above specified; for his countrymen appear not to have heard his doctrines, nor seen his miracles, until now.</li>
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<p><a href="http://gill.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></p>
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<li>he taught them in their synagogue, it being the sabbath day; see <a href="brain://D-Qu3gefGF-XCng4GVLJYQ/" class="thought-link"> </a><a href="http://bible.cc/mark/6-1.htm" >Mark 6:1-6.</a></li>
<li>The Vulgate Latin, and all the Eastern versions, the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel read, "in their synagogues"; but as Nazareth was so mean and obscure a place, it is not likely that there should be in it more synagogues than one; and of no more do we read in <a href="brain://iuc3HItZ1FispovYxv_sKg/" class="thought-link"> </a><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/4-16.htm" >Luke 4:16</a> where an account is given of Christ's preaching in this place before this time</li>
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<p><a href="http://pnt.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">People's New Testament</a></p>
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<li>Whence hath this <i>man</i> this wisdom? <b>While admitting it, they were offended at it (Mt 13:58).</b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />
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<p><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/13-55.htm" ><b>55</b></a><b> </b><b>Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?</b>
 
<a href="http://barnes.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></p>
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<li>Is not this the carpenter's son? - Mark says, "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?" Both these expressions would probably be used in the course of the conversation, and Matthew has recorded one and Mark the other. The expression recorded by Mark is a strong, perhaps decisive proof that he had himself worked at the business until he was 30 years of age.</li>
<li>Until the age of 30 he did not choose to enter on his great work; and it was proper before that time that he should set an example to the world of honorable though humble industry. Life is not wasted in such employments. They are appointed as the lot of man; and in the faithful discharge of duties in the relations of life, though obscure; in honest industry, however humble; in patient labor, if connected with a life of religion, we may be sure that God will approve our conduct. It was, moreover, the custom of the Jews - even those of wealth and learning - to train all their children to some "trade" or manual occupation. Thus Paul was a tent-maker. Compare <a href="http://bible.cc/acts/18-3.htm" >Acts 18:3</a>.</li>
<li>Yet the same infidel will loudly praise Peter the Great of Russia because he laid aside his imperial dignity and entered the British service as a "ship-carpenter," that he might learn the art of building a navy. Was the purpose of "Peter" of more importance than that of the Son of God? If Peter, the heir to the throne of the Czars, might leave his elevated rank and descend to a humble employment, and secure by it the applause of the world, why might not the King of kings evince a similar character for an infinitely higher object?</li>
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<p><a href="http://clarke.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Clarke's Commentary on the Bible</a></p>
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<li>Prejudice apart, would not any person of plain common sense suppose, from this account, that these were the children of Joseph and Mary, and the brothers and sisters of our Lord, according to the flesh? It seems odd that this should be doubted; but, through an unaccountable prejudice, <b>Papists and Protestants are determined to maintain as a doctrine, that on which the Scriptures are totally silent, viz. the perpetual virginity of the mother of our Lord.</b> See <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/1-25.htm" >Matthew 1:25</a>.</li>
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<p><a href="http://gill.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></p>
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<li>The Greek word here used, signifies any mechanic, or artificer. The Syriac expresses it by a word, which signifies both a carpenter and a blacksmith; and Munster's Hebrew Gospel renders it, , "the blacksmith's son". But the generally received notion of the ancient Christians is, that he was a carpenter, and that Jesus was brought up to the same business, which lay in making ploughs and yokes.</li>
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<p><a href="http://wes.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Wesley's Notes</a></p>
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<li>The carpenter's son - The Greek, word means, one that works either in wood, iron, or stone.</li>
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<p><a href="http://jfb.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></p>
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<li>These particulars of our Lord's human history constitute the most valuable testimony, first, to His true and real humanity-for they prove that during all His first thirty years His townsmen had discovered nothing about Him different from other men;</li>
<li>secondly, to the divine character of His mission-for these Nazarenes proclaim both the unparalleled character of His teaching and the reality and glory of His miracles, as transcending human ability;</li>
<li>and thirdly, to His wonderful humility and self-denial-in that when He was such as they now saw Him to be, He yet never gave any indications of it for thirty years, because "His hour was not yet come."</li>
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<p><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/13-56.htm" ><b>56</b></a><b>And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this</b><b> </b><i><b>man</b></i><b> </b><b>all these things?</b>
 
My notes; lots of talk here about who these were. The real point is that their familiarity with Jesus the man and his family (extended or not) were known; and they were not known as scholars or religeous "importants" of their time. Nor was there any account known to them about Jesus attending the seminaries of his day.
 
The next verse really tells the story; "He ain't one of us".
 
<a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/13-57.htm" ><b>57</b></a><b>And they were offended in him.</b> But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.</p>
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<li>There's something personal in this. Keep in mind that if they knew him, <b>he also knew them in the same fassion.</b></li>
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<a href="http://barnes.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></p>
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<li>That is, they took offence at his humble birth, and at the indigent circumstances of his family. They were too proud to be taught by one who, in family connections, they took to be their equal or inferior. People always look with envy on those of their own rank who advance pretensions to uncommon wisdom or superior power.</li>
<li>A prophet is not without honour ... - This seems to be a proverbial expression. Jesus advances it as a general truth. There might be some exceptions to it, but He was not an exception.</li>
<li>Columbus, a native of Genoa, had by patient study conceived the idea that there was a vast continent which might be reached by sailing to the west. Of this his countrymen had no belief. Learned people had long studied the science of geography, and they had never imagined that such a continent could exist; and they were indignant that He, an obscure man, should suppose that he "possessed wisdom superior to all the rest of mankind united." It was accordingly a fact that he was obliged to seek for patrons of his undertaking out of his own country; that there he received his first honors; and to other kingdoms the discoveries of the obscure Genoese gave their chief wealth and highest splendor.</li>
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<p><a href="http://clarke.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Clarke's Commentary on the Bible</a></p>
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<li>...though they were astonished at his wisdom, and at his miracles, <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/13-54.htm" >Matthew 13:54</a>. So their pride and their envy were the causes of their destruction.</li>
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<a href="http://gill.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></p>
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<li>a prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house; which seems to be a proverbial speech in common use, <b><i>though I have not met with it in Jewish writings;</i></b></li>
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<p><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/13-58.htm" ><b>58</b></a><b>And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.</b></p>
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<li>Why would unbelief influence what works He did?
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<li>Miracles were done to show His authority. His ability to do miracles was linked to his authority to forgive and save.</li>
<li>No point in a miracle if it would only be met by scoffing or unbelief.</li>
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<p><a href="http://barnes.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></p>
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<li>Did not many mighty works - Miracles. This implies that he performed some miracles. Mark tells us what they were: "He laid his hands upon a few sick folk and healed them," <a href="http://bible.cc/mark/6-5.htm" >Mark 6:5</a>.</li>
<li>they were so "prejudiced," so set against him, that they were not in a condition to "judge of evidence" and to be convinced. They would have charged it to derangement, or sorcery, or the agency of the devil. Compare <a href="http://bible.cc/john/10-20.htm" >John 10:20</a>.</li>
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<p><a href="http://gill.biblecommenter.com/matthew/13.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></p>
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<li>what he did, were not of the first class, and greatest note; he only "laid his hands", as Mark says, <a href="http://bible.cc/mark/6-5.htm" >Mark 6:5</a> "upon a few sick folk, and healed them"; and yet these were such as raised their wonder and astonishment, but did not command their faith, and were rather stumbling blocks unto them; such were their prejudices, their unbelief, and the hardness of their hearts: and the reason indeed why he did no more was,</li>
<li>These words in Mark are joined with this expression, "he marvelled"; showing, that their continued unbelief in him, notwithstanding his ministry and miracles among them, was matter of surprise to him;</li>
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