And he said, Verily, I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.
And many more believed because of his own word;
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
I am verily a man who is a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.