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MATTHEW 13:56 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:55Matt 13:57
“And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?”
And are not all his sisters with him? Where then did this man get all these things? The sisters unnamed communicate the completeness of the family's ordinariness: Jesus has brothers (named) and sisters (unnamed), a mother and presumably the father who is only known as the carpenter. The where did this man get all this things circles back to the astonishment of verse 54 but now as an obstacle rather than an opening.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:56

After the parables which the Lord spake to the people, and which the Apostles only understand, He goes over into His own country that He may teach there also.

Jerome · 4th century

From the foregoing discourse consisting of these parables, He passes to what follows without any very evident connexion between them. Besides which, Mark passes from these parables to a different event from what Matthew here gives; and Luke agrees with him, so continuing the thread of the story as to make it much more probable that that which they relate followed here, namely, about the ship in which Jesus slept, and the miracle of the daemons cast out; which Matthew has…

Augustine · 4th century · De Cons. Ev., ii, 42

By 'his own country' here, He means Nazareth; for it was not there but in Capharnaum that, as is said below, He wrought so many miracles; but to these He shews His doctrine, causing no less wonder than His miracles.

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom., xlviii
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