Too familiar to believe

After the reading in the synagogue, the people of Nazareth were impressed at first. But their amazement soon turned to doubt. Jesus then pointed to two stories from their own Scriptures. In them God's help went not to Israel, but to a widow in Zarephath and to Naaman the Syrian.

That hit hard. They drove him out of the town, to the brow of the hill, intending to throw him off. The people who have known you longest sometimes see the least. That can also be true of anyone who has thought for years that they know Jesus.