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Matthew 13:54 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? "
Matthew 13:54
Verse in Context
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52 He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”
53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
54 Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
55 Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
56 Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”
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Matthew 13:1
"On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside."
Matthew 13:2
"Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach."
Matthew 13:3
"He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow."
Matthew 13:4
"As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them."
Matthew 13:5
"Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth."
Matthew 13:6
"When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away."
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