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57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house.”(A)

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57 And they took offense(A) at him.

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”(B)

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[a](A)Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.”

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Footnotes

  1. 6:4 A prophet is not without honor except…in his own house: a saying that finds parallels in other literatures, especially Jewish and Greek, but without reference to a prophet. Comparing himself to previous Hebrew prophets whom the people rejected, Jesus intimates his own eventual rejection by the nation especially in view of the dishonor his own relatives had shown him (Mk 3:21) and now his townspeople as well.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.”(A)

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24 And he said, “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.

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24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.(A)

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