{Is not this the carpenter's son?} (ouch houtos estin ho
tou tekt(936e)os huios?). The well-known, the leading, or even for a
time the only carpenter in Nazareth till Jesus took the place of
Joseph as the carpenter. What the people of Nazareth could not
comprehend was how one with the origin and environment of Jesus
here in Nazareth could possess the wisdom which he appeared to
have in his teaching (edidasken). That has often puzzled people
how a boy whom they knew could become the man he apparently is
after leaving them. They knew Joseph, Mary, the brothers (four of
them named) and sisters (names not given). Jesus passed here as
the son of Joseph and these were younger brothers and sisters
(half brothers and sisters technically).