Jesus had been travelling the countryside teaching and healing and performing deeds of power everywhere. In this Sunday’s gospel reading, Jesus returns to his own home town. And when he goes into the synagogue to teach, the people are more skeptical and critical there than they’d been anywhere else. “Who is this guy? Isn’t that just Joseph and Mary’s boy? Don’t his sisters still live here among us? Who does he think he is coming in here with all this ‘wisdom’ and these ‘deeds of power? The story says that Jesus wasn’t able to do any acts of power there.
Woody Allen is known for saying he wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would want him as a member. That’s kind of what the people of Nazareth were like. They couldn’t imagine that anyone who was one of them could ever be anything special. They were closed to the possibilities, and therefore unable to grow in relationship with Christ.
Have you ever diminished the gifts of those close to you, fearing that you’d appear less in comparison? Have you ever cut off the possibility of healing between you and a loved one by remaining closed to who they really are? How could you break free from the ‘hometown’ syndrome that keeps you from believing that with God, nothing is impossible?
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thoughts on: Mark 6:22,3, “They said, ‘Where did this man get all this?’ … And they took offense at him."
