“For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.”
(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honour in his own country.) — this parenthetical comment prepares the reader for the reception in Galilee. The proverb about a prophet's lack of honor appears in the Synoptics but with different application; John applies it to Jesus' return to Galilee (his native region), suggesting that honor and faith are paradoxically rare even where Jesus is from.
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