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    • 1-3. How did Jesus’ former neighbors respond to his teaching, and what did they fail to recognize about him?

      THE audience was stunned. The young man Jesus was standing before them in the synagogue and teaching. He was no stranger to them​—he had grown up in their city, and for years he had worked among them as a carpenter. Perhaps some of them lived in houses that Jesus had helped to build, or maybe they worked their land with plows and yokes that he had made with his own hands.a But how would they respond to the teaching of this former carpenter?

  • Jesus Reveals the “Wisdom From God”
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    • a In Bible times, carpenters were employed in building houses, constructing furniture, and making farm implements. Justin Martyr, of the second century C.E., wrote of Jesus: “He was in the habit of working as a carpenter when among men, making ploughs and yokes.”