And he said, Verily I say to you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.
And many more believed, because of his own word;
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.
I am verily a man who 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, being zealous towards God, as ye all are this day.