Mark 6:5

And he was not able there to do many nissim (miracles), except on a few cholim (sick people) he laid (his) hands and administered refuah (healing) to them.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.

In Context

4And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, A navi is not without his kavod, except in his own shtetl and among his own mishpochah and in his own bais. + 6:4 T.N. See Mt 13:55

6And he wondered on account of their lack of emunah. And he was going around the shtetlach in a circuit, saying shiurim.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:22Haste thee, flee to escape there; for I cannot do anything till thou arrive there. Therefore the shem of the Ir was called Tzoar. + 19:22 sounds like mitzar

Isaiah 59:1Behold, the Yad Hashem is not too short, that it cannot save; 1 neither His ozen (ear) too kaved (hard, insensitive, heavy, dull) that it cannot hear; 1

Mark 5:23and he begs him earnestly saying, Biti (my daughter) is at the point of mavet. Come and put your hand on her that she may receive refuah and may live.

Hebrews 4:2For indeed we have had Besuras HaGeulah preached to us, just as they did also; but the Dvar Hashem preached did not make that generation benefit, because hearing did not form an agudah with emunah. + 4:2 faith

Matthew Henry on Mark 6:2-7

The Contempt Poured on Christ. 1 And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him. 2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here… Read the whole commentary →

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