Matthew 13:53-58

53When Jesus had finished telling these stories, he went away from that place.

54Jesus returned to his own town. He taught the Jewish people in their meeting room there. The people were very surprised about the things that he taught them. They said to each other, ‘We do not know how this man learned all these things. And we do not know how he does all these powerful things.

55We know who he is. He is the son of the carpenter here. Mary is his mother. We also know his brothers, James, Joseph, Simon and Judas.

56All his sisters also live here in the town among us. So then, where did he learn all these things?’

57So the people there did not accept Jesus. Jesus said to them, ‘If a man is a prophet from God, people everywhere will say good things about him. But the people in his own town will not accept him. Even the people of his own house will not say good things about him.’

58Jesus did not do many powerful things in that town because the people would not believe in him.