Then He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country.
So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today.
And many more believed because of His own word.