Power for Abundant Living

The Power of Believingteach, the community would not hear enough to believebecause they did not think He could know anythingsince He was illegitimate, and thus they couldnot believe. Do you know what the people of Jesus'community said to Him? "Is this the carpenter's son?He is illegitimate because everyone knows that Marywas pregnant before she and Joseph came together inmarriage." Contrary to what they thought, however,Jesus was not the carpenter's son; He was the Son ofGod by divine conception, born of Mary but conceivedby the Holy Ghost, as the Word of God says."Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mothercalled Mary and his brethren, James, and Joses, andSimon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not allwith us? Whence then hath this man all these things?"The original text gives emphasis as follows: "Is notthis the carpenter's son and his mother called Mary(You remember her.), and his brethren, James, andJoses, and Simon, and that Judas (Was he wild!), andhis sisters, (Weren't they something.), Are they not allwith us? Whence then hath this man all thesethings?" The community said that Jesus could nothave such power because they looked at the familyand said, "Nothing good can come out of this man.We know that family." Therefore, they would nothear enough to believe. They had unbelief (apistia).56"But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not with-