“And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.”
Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples — the return to Nazareth follows the miracles of chapter 5 and will produce the sharpest contrast in the Gospel: maximum miracles elsewhere, minimum miracles at home. The hometown (patris, fatherland, native place) is Nazareth, where Jesus grew up and where his family still lives. The disciples' presence makes this a formal teaching visit rather than a private family trip — Jesus arrives in Nazareth with the public identity he has been developing throughout Galilee.
Church Fathers on Mark 6:1
After the miracles which have been related, the Lord returns into His own country, not that He was ignorant that they would despise Him, but that they might have no reason to say, If Thou hadst come, we had believed Thee.
He means by His country, Nazareth, in which He was brought up. But how great the blindness of the Nazarenes! they despise Him, Who by His words and deeds they might know to be the Christ, solely on account of His kindred.
Matthew indeed says that He was called the son of a carpenter; nor are we to wonder, since both might have been said, for they believed Him to be a carpenter, because He was the son of a carpenter.
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