All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"
Many students of the Synoptics take this pericope as parallel to Matthew 13:53-58 and Mark 6:1-6. However, the differences between Luke’s account and that of Matthew and Mark seem to indicate two separate incidents. Luke’s incident probably occurred early in Jesus’ Galilean ministry whereas the one that Matthew and Mark recorded happened later.