gospel · 29 · Nazareth
He taught in the synagogue of his own town and the reaction was not hostility but offence at the presumption: is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us? It is the only verse that names the brothers, which is why four people in this dataset have a page at all. Two details are worth stopping on. Calling a man the son of Mary rather than the son of his father is unusual enough that readers have been making something of it since antiquity. And Mark says flatly that he could do no mighty work there except a few healings, and that he marvelled because of their unbelief — the only place a gospel records the ministry failing. John adds, later and just as bluntly, that not even his brothers believed in him. What makes the scene matter to a dataset about succession is what happens next: by Acts 1:14 the brothers are in the upper room with the disciples, and within twenty years James is presiding at Jerusalem.
The brothers are named, and the household does not believe him.