Re:Verse passage – Mark 6:1-6 (day three)
“Is not this the carpenter…?”
There’s an exotic allure in someone strange from somewhere else promising something new. But Jesus presented as just Jesus from the other end of the village. The people wanted Messiah to come as a conquering hero wielding a sword. What they got was a Nazarene wielding a try square. To this crowd, it felt like an insult. Everyone in the town had lived close to him and his family since they’d returned from Egypt years ago. How could the people not already know everything he knew? Yet the folks couldn’t quite catch on to what he was saying, which they found all the more annoying. Was he talking down to them? Was he disrespecting his roots? Was he rabble rousing? When God has acted in the world, it’s always been difficult to take in. It still is.
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