Was Yeshua limited by unbelief?

                                              

"And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief." Matthew 13:58

Back it the 80's I went to a popular full-faith Bible School. The founder of the school taught on this verse. I couldn't believe that Yeshua had any limitations! Recently, in meditating upon this verse again, I almost came to believe that if such were the case than unbelief was the most powerful thing in the world under heaven.

Then I decided to look at it from a Hebraic perspective and stumbled upon a word study by Skip Moen. (https://www.skipmoen.com/2019/08/not-really-possible/)

We usually think of faith as doctrine, a list of truths we hold dear from the Word of G-d. If you want more faith then you have to be persuaded to have more faith.

Or, like me, you know that "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of G-d." (Romans 10:17) So, you just need to hear more sermons, read more scriptures and wait for the revelation to "POP!". Right?

Skip points out that unbelief is actually unfaithfulness. A lack of reliability.

Here's the power point: James points out that faith produces action. You have faith? Let me see it by what you do. (James 2:17) It is not mental assent. 

Again, Brother Moen states that unbelief is "in spite of wanting to, the inability to act."

This is the key that explains the apparent problem.

Let's look at it again with Hebraic eyes:

"And he did not many mighty works there because of their inability to act."
They knew Yeshua after the flesh. They did not know him as the Messiah, the Son of G-d!
(see 2 Corinthians 5:16)

How many times do we see Yeshua ask someone to do something to be healed?

"Arise, take up thy bed..."
"Stretch forth thine hand..."
"Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam"
"Go show yourselves to the priests"

Yeshua did not have a formula and sometimes was astonished at the faith of people, and sometimes disappointed, but Luke says in general that he "went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for G-d was with him." (Luke 10:38)

Let us take action and listen to the Small Still Voice that whispers, "Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am El, and none else."