13:53,54
The kingdom parable section has now ended and Jesus moved on from there and came to His hometown. There He began to teach in the synagogue. A town would have a synagogue and it would be a focal point of religious and community life. The people were amazed at the wisdom that Jesus demonstrated in His teaching. Being the Son of God it would be a cut or two above the normal fare that they were used to! He also demonstrated His miraculous powers. Again, something that was rather unusual!
13:55-58
As well as being amazed, they also wondered where He got these powers and this wisdom from. This was His hometown, they had known Him as a boy, and knew that He was (humanly speaking) a carpenter’s son. They knew His mother and His brothers and His sisters. There had been nothing unusual about His upbringing that the eye could see. There was no reason to expect Him to be anything out of the ordinary. They “took offense at Him”. They thought He had no right to be anything special.
Jesus then gives His now famous statement about a prophet being without honour in his hometown. In any other place people focus on the gift that the person has. In the hometown the people focus on what they think they know about the person and think both that there cannot be anything special about them, and that they have no right to be special. Jesus did not do many miracles because of their lack of faith.
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