"Overlooked in your own circles" | Mark 6:4
Think about that. It was a cold skepticism in a cold hearted community. The former neighbors now scrutinized God's chosen One as merely the Joseph Boy, just the carpenter's kid trying to reach above his calling. They called him the carpenter's kid. Marks chapter six reveals Jesus lamenting. He says only in his hometown is a prophet without honor. And in Luke's Gospel chapter four, christ underscores being panned by hometown contemporaries as somehow disqualified to speak divine truth prophesied over Israel for centuries