King James Version

What Does Mark 6:3 Mean?

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 with us? And they were offended at him. offended: scandalized in, or, by him

Context

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 with us? And they were offended at him. offended: scandalized in, or, by him

4

But Jesus said unto them , A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

5

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

Commentary

Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
(3) **Is not this the carpenter**?—St. Mark’s is the only Gospel which gives this name as applied to our Lord Himself. (See Note on Matthew 13:55.)

Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.

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