Why should we follow You?
He wasn’t a newcomer to the area. In fact, people knew that he came from a town with a dubious reputation. People were sure, nothing good could ever come from there. He was simply known as the son of the local carpenter. The townspeople had seen him work in his father’s shop many times.
But at least one guy with a rather strange reputation, living the life of a hermit, surviving on a diet of wild honey and grasshoppers, seemed to know that there was more to him than met the eye. He didn’t mind telling others how special this carpenter's son was. He was so different, he might as well have been from another "time zone."