Mark 6:1

Jesus and his followers left that country and went back to his own town, called Nazareth.

Plain English Version

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 Jewish people’s rest day, Jesus went to the Jewish meeting house, and he started to teach the people God’s message. A lot of the people heard his words, and they were really shocked. They said, “How does he know so much? How come he can do powerful things? He’s nobody special. We know him. He grew up here, in this town. His mother, Mary, lives here, with his brothers, James, Joses, Judas and Simon, as well as his sisters. His job here is to make things with wood.” So those Nazareth people got angry, and they wouldn’t take any notice of him.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:23So he took his family up north to Galilee. He got to the town called Nazareth, and he stayed there. A long time before that, one of God’s men wrote about this, and it is in God’s book. He wrote, “People will say that God’s special man is from Nazareth.” And that happened after Joseph took his family to live at Nazareth.

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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