and he said, `Verily I say to you -- No prophet is accepted in his own country;
and they were stumbled at him. And Jesus said to them, `A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and in his own house:'
and many more did believe because of his word,
for Jesus himself testified that a prophet in his own country shall not have honour;
`I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.