Mark 6:1

Then Jesus and his followers left that place and went back to his home town called Nazareth.

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In The King James Version

And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.

In Context

2On the next Jewish rest day, Jesus went to the Jewish meeting house and started to teach the people about God. A lot of people were really amazed when they heard his words and they said, “Hey, we know this man and we know where he comes from. His mother Mary lives here with his brothers James, Joses and Judas. And his sisters live here too. He just makes things with wood and stone. So where did he learn all these things about God? And who was his teacher? And how come he can do such powerful things for people?” The people in the meeting got really angry with Jesus and would not believe anything he said.

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Matthew Henry on Mark 6:1

A great variety of observable passages we have, in this chapter, concerning our Lord Jesus, the substance of all which we had before in Matthew, but divers circumstances we have, which we did not there meet with. Here is, I. Christ contemned by his countrymen, because he was one of them, and they knew, or thought they knew, his original, ver. 1-6 . II. The just power he gave his apostles over unclean spirits, and an account given of their negotiation, ver. 7-13 . III. A strange notion which Herod and others had of… Read the whole commentary →

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