But it is not only the citizens of Nazareth who reject him but his own family (Mark 6:4). His friends concluded he was "beside himself" (3:21), and when they failed to deter him his family intervened (3:31), just as Joan of Arc's family reacted when she uncharacteristically left home. They seem to have known nothing of shepherds, stars or magi, or even of miracles -- 6:5 contradicts 6:2. Familiarity breeds contempt among the just and the unjust. --AGF
But it is not only the citizens of Nazareth who reject him but his own family (Mark 6:4). His friends concluded he was "beside himself" (3:21), and when they failed to deter him his family intervened (3:31), just as Joan of Arc's family reacted when she uncharacteristically left home. They seem to have known nothing of shepherds, stars or magi, or even of miracles -- 6:5 contradicts 6:2. Familiarity breeds contempt among the just and the unjust. --AGF