Rejected at Nazareth

53 And it happened that when Jesus had finished these parables he went away from there. 54 And he came to his hometown and[a] began to teach[b] them in their synagogue, so that they were amazed and said, “From where did this man get this wisdom and these miracles? 55 Is not this one the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:54 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Matthew 13:54 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to teach”)