Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 13:56

56 And his sisters are they not all with us? Whence then, hath this man all these things?

Mark saith the same, Ch. 6.3. Only he saith: Is not this the Carpenter? [non-Latin text not transcribed], which leadeth some to think, that Christ while he was thirty years of Age, wrought with Ioseph upon his Trade, Luk. 2.51. it is said, That he came to Nazareth, and was subject to his Parents. Ioseph was an Artificer, that was certain. So [non-Latin text not transcribed] signifies, but whether a Carpenter, or a Smith, the word will not inform us; for the Brethren of Christ and his Sisters here mentioned, the mo[illegible: 1 letter]t by them under[illegible: 1 letter]tand his near Relations. The Iews were offended at the meanness of our Saviour's Parents, and Relations. They were offended in him, that is, these things made them stumble at him, and not receive him as the Messias, or a Prophet sent from God. How unreasonable is Malice and Prejudice? One would have thought, that their knowledge of his Friends and Education, should have rather led them to have concluded, that he mu[illegible: 1 letter]t be sent from God, and more than a Man, seeing that he did not come by this Wisdom, by any ordinary means, nor work these great works by any humane Power.