Matthew 13:58 — Community Reflections

MATTHEW 13:58 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”

And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief. The unbelief of the Nazarenes is the condition that prevented many mighty works — not because Jesus lacked the power but because unbelief is the closed-soil condition that cannot receive the seed. Mark 6:5–6 adds that Jesus was amazed at their unbelief. The chapter that began with the parable of the sower ends with a demonstration of the path-soil condition: hard ground, seed snatched away, no harvest.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:58

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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