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, save 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 hath no honor in his own country.
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cili´cia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gama´li-el, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.