 In this week's Gospel reading, we hear from Mark's Gospel. In characteristic Mark fashion, the Gospel writer moves us swiftly through two scenes in the life of Jesus and his friends. In the first scene, Jesus is teaching in the synagogue in Nazareth. His words are so confounding to the people listening that they take offense, to which Jesus responds, "...prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house."