Mark 6:1
Jesus left Capernaum city and went to his hometown, Nazareth. His disciples went with him.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 2:23to Nazareth to live there. The result was that what had been said by the ancient prophets {what the ancient prophets had said} about the Messiah, that he would be called {people would call him} a Nazareth-man, was fulfilled {came true}.
Matthew 13:54We went to Nazareth, his hometown. ◄On the Sabbath/On the Jewish rest day► he began to teach the people in the Jewish worship house. The result was that the people there were astonished. But some said, “ This man is just an ordinary person like us. So how is it that he knows so much and understands so much [RHQ]? And how is it that he is able to do such miracles [RHQ]?
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 →