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Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended at him.
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Verse 3. S. Matt. relates that they asked: Is not this the son of the carpenter? [1] It is not improbable that both questions were asked; it was certainly very natural to take him for a carpenter, who was the son of one. Saint Augustine.—They were scandalized at his lowly birth and humble parentage. Hence Jesus Christ takes occasion to expose the malice and envy of the Jews, in refusing him, and to shew that the Gentiles would more esteem him. See Luke 4:25, and John 1.
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