Injil Markus6:1  And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.

The people from His hometown knew of His carpentry skills and He had not been gone long enough from them to have attended “university”.  It seems they were amazed at His teaching ability even as they looked down their noses at Him.  Plus, they said, His family are just ordinary folk from around here and they use this as their excuse for their obstinate disbelief.  On the other hand if they knew nothing of His pedigree would they have had any greater respect for Him?  Probably not.  As an example, those who were in Judea used, “We don’t know where this fellow came from” as their objection leveled against Him.  Obstinate disbelief will always find an excuse to continue in its disbelief.  If it has to invent contradictions in the Scripture to justify itself, it will.  Impugning the character of those who regularly attend a Bible-believing church in order to justify their own failure to obey God and attend a Bible-believing/Bible teaching church is a very common smoke screen.  But God is not fooled at all by that.

Injil Markus 6:2  And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?

6:3  Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

6:4  But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

No doubt, they had heard of things Messiah Jesus had done elsewhere and they probably thought if He really were capable of doing those things they surely would have seen Him doing those sort of things during the years He had lived among them.  Jesus partly excuses them.  This is the town where He had grown up.

Mohammad did not trust the corrupted in character “Christians” who came to him but he failed to take notice and listen to the uncorrupted ones who had been sent to him by the, compassionate and merciful, one true God.  Instead Muhammad chose not to walk the holy path of Isa, therefore, according to the Koran, Isa will return to earth.  Now, if you have “eyes to see,” then you should clearly be able to see who “The Prophet of Allah” is.

–Pastor Ward Clinton