“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.”
Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us? And they took offense at him — the identification of Jesus as the carpenter and Mary's son is the offense's content: they know exactly who he is by their own categories, and the man who is performing these miracles and teaching with this wisdom does not match the man they knew as a child. The four brothers named (James, Joseph, Judas, Simon) and the sisters confirm that Jesus' family is well known in Nazareth. They took offense at him — the word (skandalizō) is the same word as the rocky-ground people falling away (Mark 4:17). Nazareth is rocky ground.
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