Video Abstract (Author: Max7.org): The people in his home town expected Jesus to follow in his father's footsteps as a carpenter. They cannot question his wisdom and miracles, but refuse to accept who Jesus claims to be. Peter, on the other hand, has enough faith in Jesus to get out of the boat and walk on the water to him, but his faith in Jesus could not withstand a storm. It’s not until Jesus saves Peter that the disciples finally realize that Jesus does follow in his Father's footsteps - God himself! - and that we can trust in Jesus and what he says. Will you trust Jesus today?

1. In Matthew 13:53-58, why were people offended in Jesus' home town of Nazareth? A good Bible study method is to see if an account is recorded elsewhere that might provide some clues, and this particular account is also recorded in Luke 4. What do you observe in both Matthew 13:53-58 and Luke 4:20-30 that reveals the answer?

He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. He began by saying to them, "Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled."

They were all speaking well of him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from his mouth; yet they said, "Isn't this Joseph’s son?"

Then he said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to me: 'Doctor, heal yourself. What we've heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also.'"

He also said, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown. But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them except a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. And in the prophet Elisha's time, there were many in Israel who had leprosy, and yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."

When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged. They got up, drove him out of town, and brought him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl him over the cliff. But he passed right through the crowd and went on his way. (Luke 4:20-30, CSB)

2. In Matthew 14:22-33, when Simon cries out, Jesus criticizes him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” What is trust based on?