And he said, “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.
And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house.”
Many more began to believe in him because of his word,
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. At the feet of Gamaliel I was educated strictly in our ancestral law and was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.