Be Still And Know

Mark 6:3 'Then they scoffed, “He’s just a carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon. And his sisters live right here among us.” They were deeply offended and refused to believe in him.' This is an agonising moment. Jesus is rudely dismissed by the people of Nazareth. They can’t work out how someone who they have known for the past 30 years has such an amazing ministry. Some of the people may have been to school with Jesus. Others would have known him and Joseph through their business. Through the centuries it has been believed that Joseph, and presumably Jesus, were carpenters – although we can’t sure. The word in Greek describes people who worked with stone and metal as well as wood. However whatever their precise line of work, they would have had customers and so Jesus was being rejected by people who knew him well. And their rejection of him was brutal. They wanted nothing to do with him. The people of Nazareth could only see Jesus in human terms. They knew his famil