Luke 4:24

And he said to them: Verily I say to you, There is no prophet who is acceptable in his own city.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Jesus said to them: Perhaps, ye will speak to me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: and whatever we have heard of thy doing in Capernaum, do thou here also in thy city.

25And I tell you the truth, that there were many widows in the house of Israel, in the days of Elijah the prophet, when the heavens were closed up three years and six months, and there was a great famine in all the land:

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Cross References

Matthew 13:57And they were stumbled at him. But Jesus said to them: There is no prophet who is little, except in his own city and in his own house.

John 4:41And many believed on him, because of his discourse.

Acts 22:3I am a man who am a Jew; and I was born in Tarsus 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 God, as ye also all are.

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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