Luke 4:24

But he said, I tell you assuredly, There is no prophet who is received in his (own) city.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

In Context

23Jeshu said to them, You will perhaps say to me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself; and all that we have heard that you have done in Kapher-nachum do also here in your own city.

25For I say to you the truth, that many widows were in the house of Isroel in the days of Elia the prophet, when the heavens were shut up for three years and six months, and great famine was in all the land;

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Cross References

Matthew 13:57And they were offended with him. But Jeshu said to them, No prophet is contemned except in his own city, and in his own house.

John 4:41and many believed through his word.

Acts 22:3I am a man a Jihudoya; and I was born in Tarsos of Cilicia, but was brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed perfectly in the law of our fathers. And I was zealous for Aloha, even as all of you are also.

Matthew Henry on Luke 4:15-31

Christ in the Synagogue of Nazareth; Christ Driven from Nazareth. 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he… Read the whole commentary →

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