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Mat_13:55 ff. Τοῦ τέκτονος ] of the carpenter, which, however, also embraces other workers in wood (the cabinetmaker, the cartwright, and such like). See Philo, Cod. apocr. I. p. 368 f.; Justin, c. Tryph. 88; Suicer, Thes. II. p. 1254 f. In Mar_6:3, Jesus Himself is spoken of by the people as ὁ τέκτων , and certainly not without reason; see note on that passage.
οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ ] See note on Mat_12:46.
According to the reading ʼΙωσήφ , there was only one of the sons of that Mary, who was the wife of Alphaeus, who was certainly of the same name, viz. James (Mat_27:56; on the Judas, brother of James, see note on Luk_6:16). But if this Mary, as is usually supposed, had been the sister of the mother of Jesus, we would have been confronted with the unexampled difficulty of two sisters bearing the same name. However, the passage quoted in support of this view, viz. Joh_19:25, should, with Wieseler, be so interpreted as to make it evident that the sister of Jesus’ mother was not Mary, but Salome. Comp. note on Joh_1:1.
πᾶσαι ] therefore hardly to be understood, as some of the Fathers did (in Philo, Cod. apocr. p. 363), as meaning only two.
Observe, further, that in the course of what is said about the relatives, there is not the slightest indication of their being supposed to be different from the ordinary inhabitants of the place.
οὐκ ἔστι προφήτης … ἐν τῇ πατρίδι αὐτοῦ (not αὑτοῦ ) κ . ἐν τ . οἰκ . αὐτ . is (Joh_4:44) a principle founded on experience, which is found to apply to the present case only as relatively true, seeing that, under different conditions, the contrary might prove to be the case.
The ἐν τ . οἰκίᾳ αὐτοῦ , in his own family (Mat_12:25), corresponds with Joh_7:3, comp. Mar_3:20. See also the note on Mat_12:46-50.