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Submitted by Dirk Gently on February 18 2000 at 19:10:11
In reply to hi sheesh... Submitted by Compassion on February 17 2000 at 23:33:34
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Jesus was not the carpenter's son. At least not biologically. Of course, the townspeople had no way of knowing that. They would simply have assumed that either Joseph and Mary had committed a capital offense, or Mary did with someone else. Looking at the context of those verses, I suspect the point of the passage isn't to establish who Jesus is related to. I suspect it's to illustrate that He came to that which was His own, and His own did not receive Him. Or, as He said in Matt. 13:57, "A prophet is not without honour except in his own country and in his own house." By referring to Him as "the carpenter's son," the townspeople could have been saying, "Isn't this the bastard? Who does he think he is, pretending to be a Rabbi and teaching us about the Law?" Dirk |