And He said, “Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown.
And they were taking offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”
And many more believed because of His word;
For Jesus Himself bore witness that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city, having been instructed at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today,