But He said, “Truly, I tell you, ‘No prophet is accepted in his own hometown.’
And they took offense at Him. But Yeshua said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house.”
and many more believed because of His word.
Now Yeshua Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
“I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, trained strictly according to the Torah of our fathers, being zealous for God just as all of you are today.