“And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.”
Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown — the prophet-without-honor saying grounds the rejection in the prophetic pattern. No prophet is accepted in his hometown: the familiarity that claims to know the prophet's origins prevents the recognition of the prophet's mission. Nazareth has too much information about Joseph and Mary's son to see clearly the Son of God.
Church Fathers on Luke 4:24
When our Lord came to Nazareth, He refrains from miracles, lest He should provoke the people to greater malice. But He sets before them His teaching no less wonderful than His miracles. For there was a certain ineffable grace in our Savior’s words which softened the hearts of the hearers. Hence it is said, And they all bare him witness.
They bare Him witness that it was truly He, as He had said, of whom the prophet had spoken.
But what prevents Him from filling men with awe, though He were the Son as was supposed of Joseph? Do you not see the divine miracles, Satan already prostrate, men released from their sickness?
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