And he said, Truly I say to you, that not one prophet is acceptable in his fatherland.
And they were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his fatherland, and in his house.
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own fatherland.
I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today.
And many more believed because of his word.