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Article: Miracle worker.(Jesus has difficulty being believed in his own hometown of Nazareth)(Brief Article)(Column)
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- The Christian Century
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- June 21, 2000
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Mark 6:1-6
AFTER THE remarkable healing of a woman who had suffered for 12 years from hemorrhages and after the raising of the dead child of Jairus, Jesus goes home to Nazareth accompanied by his disciples. He teaches in the synagogue on the sabbath, and the people are amazed both at his teaching and at the murmured accounts of the healings. For a moment or two it would appear that a warm celebration of "hometown boy makes good" is about to erupt. But not so. What is about to happen is rejection, the same kind of rejection that would dog his trail all the way to Good Friday. "He could do no mighty work there ... because of their unbelief."
Strange how ...