1 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,100 Hi everyone. Welcome back to our podcast, 2 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:19,700 where we look at the Gospel reading from today's mass, and 3 00:00:19,700 --> 00:00:21,700 we then look at the literal sense of the text. 4 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:24,800 We provide an exegesis of what it meant in its original 5 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,100 context, which is a really useful way of what, should be 6 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:30,400 our foundation for studying the Bible. 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,000 Today, we're up to Mark chapter 6, and we're looking at verse 1 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,300 to 6. Jesus went to his hometown and 9 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:44,800 his disciples accompanied him. With the coming of the Sabbath, 10 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,000 he began teaching in the synagogue and most of them were 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,300 astonished when they heard him they said where did the man get 12 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:55,000 all this? What is the wisdom that has been 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,900 granted him and these Miracles that are worked through him? 14 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:04,400 This is the carpenter, surely the son of Mary, the brother of 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,900 James and Joseph and Jude and Simon his sister's to are they 16 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:12,500 not here with us. And I would not accept him. 17 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,600 And Jesus said to them, a prophet is only despised in his 18 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,700 own country among his own relations, and in his own house, 19 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:26,000 and he could do no Miracle there, though, he cured a few 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,400 sick people by laying his hands on them. 21 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:31,400 He was amazed at their lack of faith. 22 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,200 So that's our passage today and interesting little accounts from 23 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,100 the life of Jesus where his own Hometown Nazareth, rejects him. 24 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,600 So in verse one here, he travels to to Nazareth, his hometown and 25 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,200 he's coming from Capernaum. He's been living in Capernaum 26 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,800 for a while, doing some doing his ministry work there. 27 00:01:55,300 --> 00:02:00,200 So it's a 10-hour walk or about 20 miles to get to Nazareth, 28 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,800 probably just a Day's Journey. Now it's possible that Jesus 29 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,500 stayed there. Or a few days with his family 30 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:08,500 before the Sabbath even comes around. 31 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:12,200 Because as our text says, with the coming of the Sabbath, he 32 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,700 began teaching in the synagogue, but he apparently already been 33 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:21,100 in his home town for a few days. So on the Sabbath every Jew in 34 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:24,400 that time would go to the synagogue and that here from the 35 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,300 scriptures and they'd hear some teaching either from a local 36 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:30,000 teacher or from a traveling preacher. 37 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,200 So Jesus has been teaching and other synagogues and Galilee. 38 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,200 So he's been in Capernaum teaching in the synagogue there, 39 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,500 but he hasn't been to the local synagogue in Nazareth yet. 40 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,300 It's the first time apparently. So the reaction of the people in 41 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:47,100 verse 2 is they were astonished when they heard him. 42 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:50,800 So we don't know what Jesus preached what his sermon was but 43 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,300 it must have been something quite powerful powerful because 44 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:56,400 they're astonished. And at first glance the people 45 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,500 of Nazareth have a very similar reaction to other people in 46 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:03,800 places like Capernaum. They say things like what is 47 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,800 this wisdom that has been granted him. 48 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:09,000 So they're impressed by Jesus teaching and they recognize that 49 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,200 it comes from God. God. 50 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:16,300 So there are astonished but as we read on the passage, their 51 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:19,900 astonishment is different from the reaction of people in other 52 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:22,600 places. So here in Nazareth, they see, 53 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:27,100 Jesus power is inappropriate almost, so they're asking the 54 00:03:27,100 --> 00:03:28,600 right questions. Where does this man? 55 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,800 Get his power but with the wrong attitude they're actually asking 56 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:37,100 it with a skeptical attitude. And they say, how does he do 57 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:39,000 these Miracles that are worked through him. 58 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:43,600 So they acknowledge the Jesus can do Miracles sort of, but 59 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,800 they can't really comprehend how it can be Jesus. 60 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,800 This guy Jesus from their own home town that does these 61 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,900 things. So, as one scholar calls this, 62 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:56,600 this is kind of like that. People are Nazareth, are showing 63 00:03:56,900 --> 00:04:01,000 an indignant skepticism of of Jesus here. 64 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:05,600 So, for this next week, we need to keep in mind Jesus grew up in 65 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,900 Nazareth. Who was there for 30 years? 66 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:11,300 Just being a normal guy, there was nothing particularly special 67 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:14,100 about him at all. There's only 300 people that 68 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:16,700 live in Nazareth, so everyone knows Jesus. 69 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:21,600 And there was nothing out of the ordinary in his early life. 70 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,400 Apparently, verse 3, they are asked to each other. 71 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,100 Is this is not this the carpenter carpenter. 72 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:34,000 And so for 30 years, he Learned carpentry from Joseph, 73 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,300 apparently. Joseph was a carpenter and 74 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:38,800 that's what the people know him as the local Carpenter. 75 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:42,600 The word here. Translated Carpenter is tecton 76 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,600 in Greek and that can be translated different ways at 77 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,700 illegitimate translation, is Builder or craftsman so we can't 78 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:55,900 be 100% certain that Jesus was a carpenter. 79 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:58,800 He could have just been a builder of any sort. 80 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,200 Now, another thing to keep in mind about the culture of the 81 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,000 time, and this is why the science of exegesis is really 82 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,600 important. We ask the question, what was 83 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,100 the culture? Like, at the time in this part 84 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:15,700 of Israel. So there was a radical 85 00:05:15,700 --> 00:05:18,500 separation in society between a religious leaders who are 86 00:05:18,508 --> 00:05:22,500 considered to be elite and clever and then the Common Man 87 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:25,000 there was a huge gap and people usually. 88 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:29,200 You know, you were born either rich or poor there was no middle 89 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,800 class and it was very hard to change classes. 90 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,400 If you're a poor person you're always going to be a poor common 91 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:36,900 man. If you're a rich person you 92 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:38,500 probably always going to be a rich person. 93 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,400 So the Jewish people trusted their religious leaders. 94 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,800 They trusted their Elite smart Pharisees Etc, and they couldn't 95 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,800 understand how a simple Carpenter a common poor man. 96 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:55,500 Could suddenly become a religious messenger of God, that 97 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,800 That's just not how the society worked. 98 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,400 If a person who they knew for 30 years, who had been a common 99 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,900 Carpenter suddenly started. Proclaiming, you know, the 100 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:08,900 kingdom of God, the best explanation for that would be 101 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:13,800 that his crazy, not that his legitimately, you know, got a 102 00:06:13,808 --> 00:06:16,200 new role in my for the God has spoken to him. 103 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:19,700 That's they just couldn't break out of that mold of thinking. 104 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:25,600 Now they call him or they say surely, this is the son of Mary. 105 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:29,100 Now, notice they don't say son of Joseph, which would be the 106 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:32,000 normal Jewish way of designating Jesus. 107 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:34,000 You would say Jesus, the son of Joseph. 108 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:38,200 So why do they call him Jesus? Son of Mary Three explanations 109 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,000 but there are three possible explanations. 110 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,300 Firstly, we could give the people of Nazareth credit here 111 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,100 and say that maybe they knew that Joseph wasn't the 112 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:52,600 biological father and because possibly Joseph Nazareth told 113 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,100 everyone, I'm not the biological father and maybe they believe 114 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:59,000 that it was some sort of miraculous conception and that's 115 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,900 what they mean when they say son of Mary. 116 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,800 Think that's probably unlikely though because they do, they 117 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,000 seem to have a problem with believing in Jesus here. 118 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,600 Second option, it could be a slur, like, an offensive thing 119 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,200 to say, which focuses on the fact that Mary was not married 120 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,300 when Jesus was conceived as in your son of Mary, not really the 121 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:22,300 son of Joseph, because they weren't legally married when 122 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:24,800 Joseph was conceived. But when Jesus was conceived, 123 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,000 that is third option. And I think this is the most 124 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,700 likely option. Is there just indicating the 125 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:33,400 Joseph has died? And that he's been dead by for 126 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,400 quite a while by this point. Depending on how old you think 127 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:42,000 Joseph was. He could, if Jesus is 30 here, 128 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,400 Joseph would be anywhere between 50 and 70 years old. 129 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,700 And a lot of people didn't make it past 50, so he's probably 130 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:52,400 been dead for quite a while. And so he's now known in 131 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,100 Nazareth is simply the son of Mary, because Joseph isn't 132 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:57,900 around anymore, so I think that's the best explanation for 133 00:07:57,907 --> 00:08:02,100 the phrase, son of Mary, but then they go on and say, is he 134 00:08:02,100 --> 00:08:06,800 not the brother of James and Joseph and Judas, and Simon Now, 135 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:11,800 we talked a bit about this in Mark chapter 3 when Jesus 136 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,200 relatives come and accuse Jesus of being crazy. 137 00:08:15,700 --> 00:08:18,200 But let's go over it again because it's really important. 138 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:21,100 So, the word brother here. When it says, the brothers of 139 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:25,500 Jesus, the word is Adele force in Greek and that's used quite 140 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:28,700 Loosely in that culture as it is in many parts of the world. 141 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:34,000 Today, you'll go to places in the Eastern world where words 142 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 like Uncle and Cousin and brother are you? 143 00:08:36,100 --> 00:08:40,600 Add more Loosely. So not necessarily Jesus literal 144 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:46,500 biological brothers and we also learned that there are some 145 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:49,800 sisters here living in Nazareth. So, who are these people that 146 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,700 the people of Nazareth consider to be Jesus, brothers and 147 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:56,100 sisters their mentioned, several times in the New Testament. 148 00:08:56,100 --> 00:08:58,400 Although we're never given a full explanation of who they 149 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,000 are. We are given some Clues. 150 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,100 So, firstly, the early church unanimously held that Mary did 151 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:08,100 not have other children. They can't be children of Mary. 152 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,000 No one in the early Church, believe that Mary Had other 153 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,800 children or it was a very much a minority position. 154 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,300 But if Joseph has died. Let's think about what Mary's 155 00:09:20,300 --> 00:09:23,600 doing, Mary's probably living in Nazareth with other relatives. 156 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:26,900 Since she's living in Nazareth. And these other brothers and 157 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:31,600 sisters live in Nazareth to, it's reasonable to assume that 158 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:35,300 these other brothers and sisters of Jesus are Mary's blood 159 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:38,100 relatives. It's of some sort, maybe they're 160 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:40,800 her nephews and nieces maybe they're her own cousins. 161 00:09:41,900 --> 00:09:44,500 We know that they're not full siblings of Jesus. 162 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:48,200 And here's how because the gospels tell us that these 163 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:55,100 brothers, James Joseph, Judas and Simon are not actually come 164 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:57,600 from a different mother. And the place we've looked for 165 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:02,200 that is Mark 1540 where it specifically tells us that two 166 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,500 of these guys. James and Joseph are from a 167 00:10:05,500 --> 00:10:07,900 different mother. Whose name is Mary. 168 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:12,400 But it's not vert. There's not the virgin Mary. 169 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:15,900 It's not the mother of Jesus. It's actually different Mary, 170 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:20,700 we're not sure which Mary this is but many in the early church 171 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:26,300 believed that this marry this mother of James and Joseph, He's 172 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:28,800 a relative of Marion. It's possibly the wife of 173 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,300 cleopas. So if that's right, if this 174 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:38,100 other Mary who's the mother of James and Joseph is a relative 175 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:43,100 of Mary then that would make these brothers and sisters of 176 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:46,900 Jesus basically their Jesus cousins and I think that that's 177 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:48,900 probably a good reasonable solution. 178 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:52,900 Let's move on. So they say about Jesus are they 179 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:55,300 not here with us? So apparently his family is here 180 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:57,700 in this scene. Gog listening to Jesus, which 181 00:10:57,700 --> 00:10:59,600 makes sense. Because Nazareth only has about 182 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,100 300 people living there. So everyone's there on that day. 183 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,400 So, by asking these kind of questions, how does it get this 184 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,100 knowledge? Is this not the son of Mary, the 185 00:11:10,108 --> 00:11:12,600 people of Nazareth that kind of showing skepticism. 186 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,300 And they're basically saying that they're confident, they 187 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:17,900 already know everything there is to know about Jesus. 188 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,100 You could consider this to be a fulfillment of Isaiah 53. 189 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:26,700 Verse to remember Isaiah 53, is the famous Suffering servant 190 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:30,600 prophecy about the Messiah. And in verse 2 of Isaiah 53, it 191 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,500 talks about the Messiah, not having any particular form or 192 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:36,800 comeliness. As in this Messiah is going to 193 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,800 grow up unnoticed by those around him. 194 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,800 And there's not going to be anything particularly special 195 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,200 about him. So this could be a fulfillment 196 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,800 of that. And now, Mark tells us the 197 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,700 people of Nazareth would not accept him or another 198 00:11:50,700 --> 00:11:54,000 translation. Is they took offense at him, so 199 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,500 their preconceived ideas become an obstacle to Faith. 200 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,700 This kind of a willful refusal to accept that God is truly 201 00:12:02,700 --> 00:12:04,800 working through Jesus. They make a willful decision 202 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,400 that this is not really the Messiah. 203 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,800 God is not working through him. So by doing that they closed 204 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:15,100 himself off to God's grace. In a sense, they're kind of like 205 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,600 remember in Mark chapter 4 when Jesus is describing the meaning 206 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,100 of Parables, he says that there's those inside the kingdom 207 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:25,600 who understand and that those outside the kingdom. 208 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:27,500 And in Mark, chapter 4, verse 12. 209 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:31,200 It describes those people, as they look and see, but do not 210 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,500 perceive and hear and listen, but do not understand. 211 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,000 I think that's quite a good description of these people in 212 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,900 Nazareth. Here they're outside the kingdom 213 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:44,000 because they cannot perceive that this is Uli godson. 214 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:46,500 Verse 4. Jesus. 215 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:50,100 Now, says, in the synagogue, a prophet is only despised in his 216 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:54,000 own country among his own relations, and in his own house. 217 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,400 So, it's kind of like three circles, concentric circles 218 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,200 getting closer and closer in a more intimate. 219 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,700 So the outside Circle his own country. 220 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:07,100 Next Circle in, among his own relations, third circle in his 221 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:11,000 own house So, why does Jesus say this? 222 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,800 A prophet is not accepted by his own family in his own house, but 223 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,800 think about how important family relationships were in that 224 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:25,200 culture, everyone knew everyone. And so, if you knew someone 225 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,200 growing up, you felt like in your everything about them, 226 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,900 you're very close to them and it's going to be Unthinkable for 227 00:13:32,900 --> 00:13:35,100 them to be like God has spoken through me. 228 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:36,700 You're going to be very skeptical of that. 229 00:13:36,700 --> 00:13:40,200 Because you've grown up with this person it just And yeah, 230 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:43,000 they had a radical separation between the Common Man and the 231 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,800 religious in their view, God only works. 232 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,000 Well God speaks through the religious leaders, not through 233 00:13:49,100 --> 00:13:53,000 your own relatives, or your own Common Man in your own town. 234 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:56,600 So the fact that Jesus addresses, this at his family, 235 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,200 he says to them. A prophet is only accepted. 236 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,000 He's trying to get his family to think, he's trying to get them 237 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:04,500 to recall. A principle that they should 238 00:14:04,500 --> 00:14:07,700 already know, which is that many of the prophets of the Old 239 00:14:07,700 --> 00:14:09,800 Testament, like Isaiah Iran. Ezekiel. 240 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:15,700 Who were revered by the Jews of Jesus time, where, in fact, we 241 00:14:15,708 --> 00:14:19,000 rejected by the town's in their own time. 242 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,500 So Jesus is saying, remember, all those Old Testament, 243 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:26,200 prophets, who weren't accepted by the people of their time. 244 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,700 Well, I'm like one of those. So, Jesus, here indicates that 245 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:34,100 he's a prophet. This five Mark tells us, he 246 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:38,100 could do no Miracle there. That's quite significant because 247 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:40,400 of the lack of faith of people in Nazareth. 248 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,100 Jesus could not do any significant Miracle. 249 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,000 We often don't talk about this aspect of Jesus Ministry. 250 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:52,100 Jesus ability to do Miracles, is proportionate to the level of 251 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:54,500 faith of people in the local area. 252 00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:56,800 It appears that that's the principle. 253 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,500 But then verse 5 Mark goes on. He says though, he cured a few 254 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:04,700 sick people by laying his hands on them. 255 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,400 So Jesus does do a few Little Miracles? 256 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,400 But Mark seems to be trying to say that Jesus could not do 257 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,000 anything extraordinary that he's been doing so far. 258 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,300 For example, he doesn't cast out many demons, he can't come and 259 00:15:17,308 --> 00:15:21,000 he storms here, there's not enough faith of the people in 260 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,300 order for him to do that. Now we want to be careful. 261 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:27,400 We don't want to say that Jesus power is limited here or 262 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:31,300 something like that. It's just that the miracle 263 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:35,400 itself is not going to be received, or the power is not 264 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,800 involved in the miracle would not work with these particular 265 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,500 people. So Jesus does not lose his 266 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:46,200 omnipotence or something in a proper sense when it comes to 267 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,200 these towns. But what he can do, there is 268 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,300 limited by people's lack of faith. 269 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,700 And there's a, there's been a lot written about that as well. 270 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:01,100 Verse 6. He says it says he was amazed at 271 00:16:01,108 --> 00:16:03,900 their lack of faith. Sometimes Jesus is amazed at 272 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:07,200 people's amount of faith in terms of being a positive thing, 273 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:12,000 like the Canaanite woman. And also remember the center Ian 274 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:15,200 who said, Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my 275 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,700 roof and so he's amazed at people's faith in those cases. 276 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:22,800 But here he's amazed at Nazareth and their lack of faith. 277 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:26,500 In a sense, the Nazareth reaction is understandable, 278 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:29,600 because of the view, they Had a varietal separation between the 279 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,400 religious man and the common man, but also that does seem to 280 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,600 show a closing off of God's grace, that's not warranted. 281 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,300 And that they are still accountable for willfully, 282 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:41,900 turning their back on Jesus here. 283 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,200 Doesn't seem to faze Jesus though, because if you read on 284 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,000 he just goes around to other local towns and he just keeps 285 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,600 going with his ministry. How's the Catholic Church to 286 00:16:52,608 --> 00:16:55,200 develop teachings from this passage? 287 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,400 So first in paragraph, five hundred, there's a discussion 288 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:02,800 about who these brothers of Jesus are so paragraph. 289 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,300 Five hundred says against the doctrine of Mary's ever 290 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:09,200 virginity. Is the objection that is 291 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,099 sometimes raised that the Bible mentions brothers and sisters of 292 00:17:12,099 --> 00:17:14,800 Jesus. The church has always understood 293 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,200 these passages as not referring to other children of the Virgin, 294 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,900 Mary. In fact, James and Joseph 295 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:24,500 Brothers of Chase's other sons of another marry, a disciple of 296 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:26,900 Christ whom Saint, Matthew significantly calls. 297 00:17:26,900 --> 00:17:31,100 The other Mary, they are close relations of Jesus according to 298 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:36,600 an Old Testament expression. So there we hear the Catholic 299 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,800 Church's teaching. Although there's no specific 300 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:43,400 Catholic teaching on who these brothers are the Catholic 301 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,000 teaching is that they're definitely not the sons of Mary 302 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:50,200 and that they are some sort of other close relation of Jesus. 303 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,400 Paragraph. 69, 9 talks about the significance of the hand because 304 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,700 Jesus lays hands on people here in Nazareth. 305 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,200 And then also already a paragraph 26 10, which is in the 306 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:07,900 section about how Jesus teaches us how to pray, just as Jesus 307 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:10,500 prays to the father and gives thanks before receiving his 308 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:12,800 gifts. So he teaches us, feel your 309 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,400 boldness, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you will 310 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,900 receive it. And you will, such is the power 311 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:22,900 of prayer and have faith. That does not doubt. 312 00:18:23,300 --> 00:18:25,900 All things are possible to him, who believes. 313 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:30,200 Jesus is a saddened by the lack of faith of his own neighbors, 314 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:32,800 and of the little faith of his own disciples. 315 00:18:33,100 --> 00:18:36,500 As he is struck with admiration, at the great faith of the Roman 316 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:38,500 Centurion and the Canaanite woman. 317 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:42,900 So there you'll hear the Catholic Church's teaching on 318 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:48,300 Jesus sadness, at the lack of faith, displayed by the people 319 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:51,500 of Nazareth. So I'll put all those catechism 320 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:53,500 references there for you, to have a look at in the show 321 00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:55,800 notes. Hopefully, you learned something 322 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,300 new about. Jesus short visit to Nazareth 323 00:18:59,300 --> 00:19:00,700 and will continue again tomorrow. 324 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:01,600 Thanks for listening.