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 honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
I am verily a man which am 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 ye all are this day.
And many more believed because of his own word;