Mark 6:1-6 "Jesus is rejected at Nazareth"

Pastor Lowell Nelson teaches about Mark 6:1-6 "Jesus is rejected at Nazareth" on 10/26/2025 for our Sunday service.

Mark 6:1-6

1 Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him.

2 And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, “Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands!

3 “Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?” So they were offended at Him.

4 But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

5 Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

6 And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.

We continue to see the authentication of Jesus’s authority and identity as God the Son. Even this rejection of the people in the city of Nazareth that Jesus grew up in continues to validate who He is and His authority. In Mark 12:10 Jesus quotes Psalm 118:22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This is the Lords doing, and is marvelous in our eyes. We will look at the reasons for their rejection and Jesus’s response. He marvels and simply moves on with His mission.